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Positive Performance Indicators

All businesses need to adopt a systematic approach to safety (National Health Strategy) in order to provide sustained and continual OHS improvements. This systematic approach comes from a need that in order to improve the level of OHS performance, the focus on OHS management needs to shift from a peripheral position to one of total integration into an organisations management systems.
Managers must be able to see good OHS performance as a critical part of good
sustainable business practice.

So, in order to achieve this we need a reliable system of OHS performance measurement for health and safety in the workplace. This is the role of Positive Performance Indicators (PPI) (which may incorporate quantitative, qualitative, lead or lag indicators)
This approach can take many forms but usually consists of key elements of the OHS Management System:

  • Commitment and Policy - measures demonstrated commitment to improve OHS performance.
  • Planning - measures what procedures are in place to eliminate workplace injury and disease
  • Implementation - measures the capacity and support mechanisms that are necessary to achieve OHS objectives and targets.
  • Measurement and evaluation - measures the extent to which workplace health and safety is monitored and evaluated so that issues can be identified and corrective actions taken
  • Review and improvement - measures the effectiveness of the OHS management system and its continuing suitability.