Today’s issue of WorkCompRecap features the release of a new report from the National Safety Council’s Campbell Institute that introduces two frameworks to support serious injury and fatality (SIF) prevention efforts – cumulative risk assessment and social network analysis.
Serious Injury and Fatality Prevention: Leading Indicators, Cumulative Risk and Safety Networks is the the third in a series on this emerging safety trend. Key findings included that SIF prevention is dependent on effectively identifying and controlling risk – as organizations mature along their safety journeys, risk assessments must also become more sophisticated. The report also explores social network analysis, a long-standing, empirically founded framework referenced among EHS professionals, but that has not been formally identified. Elements from social network analysis can be used to measure and analyze leading indicators for SIF prevention through the development of cumulative risk assessment modeling.