If you think safety metrics is old fashion and leads to “manipulating behaviors”, go out to your car and disconnect your dashboard/pull fuses so that you get no analytical feedback data on how well you are staying within your safe operating envelope of yours and the car’s performance. Then tell me metrics are not needed in safety management.
If you’re not a believer in leading indicators let’s take this 1-step further. Let’s say you drive home with your dashboard totally disabled and you get a speeding ticket.
That event is at least a NEAR-MISS; most would say that since we got a ticket/fine it was more than a near-miss since there was a consequence. Do your root cause analysis (I know this is evil to some) and ask yourself what failed and led to my event that produced a negative outcome.
Maybe, just maybe, not having proper and reliable driving metrics, such as mph, played a role in my human failure event. Was it the human’s fault? Well, if it was my personal vehicle, then yes, I would shoulder 100% of the blame. But what if this was a worker driving a company vehicle that was improperly maintained and not functioning as expected?
Is the speeding their human error or is this a management system error that needs management system corrections rather than behavioral corrections (e.g. disciplining the driver)?
