SafetyLink

The Challenge

How to achieve a sustainable safety culture

Do your clients know where the next accident is going to happen, what will cause it, what it will cost the company, and who will get hurt?

Most safety directors face the challenge of how to effectively observe and record individual behaviors such that they can collect the leading indicators in real time, where risky behaviors can be corrected before an accident happens or positive behaviors can be rewarded.

Many inspection processes have established the right criteria but are unable to close the loop in measuring actual behaviors on an individual basis to provide solid data for continuous improvement.

The Solution

The innovative use of technology

Imagine an environment that fosters self-accountability by using a variety of technologies to collect the needed information. Collect data on safety behaviors in real time. Automatically produce reports on leading indicators, allowing management to have a more refined picture of their safety culture.

• Safety audits
• Time clock integration
• RFID tracking
• PDA uploads
• ID Barcode scans

Combine cutting edge technology with the widely accepted human resources practice of reinforcing positive behaviors and the result is a sustainable safety culture that is empowered, not just enforced.

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Success Without The Stick

Protecting the health and welfare of employees is one of the most significant investments a company can make. Behavior modification is the first step in correcting unsafe acts, but responsible companies strive for a high level of employee self-accountability. Behavior-based safety programs, driven by regulatory compliance, have been the primary methodology employed by safety professionals.

Our industry research has supported that culture-based safety programs are finding support at the strategic corporate level. Management’s trend is to structure safety programs so that employees are empowered to make the right safety decisions, creating a culture of self-accountability.

SafetyLink is an important new tool because it involves best practices in human resources and it reflects this newly emerging trend among safety professionals to reward safe behaviors rather than to punish infractions. Automatically track safety behaviors on an individual level (leading indicators) and trigger notification of exemplary performance based on a numerical Safety Index. The index is a weighted calculation based on job role-specific metrics established by the organization. Employee metrics that support culture-based safety programs can be included in the Safety Index calculations. Organizational reports trend the calculated Safety Index against incident rates for the same time period. Ideally, this report will show the Safety Index trend line moving up, and the incident rate trend line moving down.

Control Your Data

There are inherent limitations to insurance industry-provided technology solutions. One of the most significant issues is the ownership of data. Under a fully insured or large deductible program, insureds often rely, or are required to rely on their insurer to keep a historical database of claims activity. Should an insured no longer do business with the insurers, an insured will likely find that the information was not kept in a very useful format or is very difficult to access.

By licensing SafetyLink, you not only retain possession of your own data, you can customize data collection and reports to fit your needs. This would be especially advantageous if your organization is self-insured through policy self-insured retention and large deductible programs or are operating their own captive insurance company and financing your own risk.

By eliminating the carrying-costs that commercial insurers are obligated to pass on to their customers, self-insured entities usually realize cost savings. Use a portion of those annualized savings to invest in SafetyLink to improve the quality of the information risk managers receive for managing safety efforts. By integrating claims data and additional financial data with the information generated by SafetyLink, risk managers have a comprehensive resource for strategic analysis.

Financial Impact of Safety

Strategically, one of the most important reports in SafetyLink is one that illustrates the financial savings (or losses) realized from the reported incident rates. This calculation is customizable according to individual state worker’s compensation guidelines or other data. By overlaying other financial data, this report can also trend insurance costs.

Easy data collection

Technologically, SafetyLink eases the burden of tracking behaviors by using a combination of passive and active data collection. It integrate with a variety of existing technologies to become a comprehensive resource for risk management, performance evaluation, and recognition.

• radio frequency identification (RFID),
• sensors
• time keeping systems
• educational and training software
• rugged PDAs
• traditional observation-based safety audits
• claims records

Employee Award Histories

SafetyLink creates award histories and detailed justifications for all recipients and links them to individual personnel files, allowing management to get a more complete picture of the qualities that the recipient displayed to earn recognition. Safety recognition can now be integrated with your organization’s total rewards strategy.