Strategies for Preventing Fatal and Life-changing Injury Events

摘要

Preventing fatal and life-changing injury events moving forward will require a different approach than what the safety profession has been doing for most of the last 80 years. Heinrich's safety pyramid approach could only take us so far with its frequency-of-incidents approach. To get beyond that, we must look deeper into an organization's climate (or culture) to address the precursor events that lead to those situations that have the potential to result in a fatal or life-changing injury. Eastern Alliance Insurance Group, a worker's compensation insurance carrier, has developed an approach to address the critical cultural elements that must be in place to help an organization identify and address their risk factors, and implement proper controls to reduce the likelihood of fatal and life-changing injuries.