Leading indicators

The Discovering Safety Programme’s leading indicator industry use case is looking to support organisations in the collection and analysis of health and safety lead indicators intelligence as part of drives to promote more proactive health and safety practice across their organisations.

The first meeting of the LI project industry steering group discussed what safety leading indicators could be used in the construction industry to inform their practice on construction sites, some of the key practical challenges in doing so, and the extent to which they are used currently.

Much industry guidance has been published over recent years, specific to different industry contexts, on how to better use leading indicators of health and safety performance to support assessments of the adequacy of workplace risk control m