Key performance indicators, or KPIs, are used to create or define a way to measure process performance. For safety and risk, that means processes related to the number of safety or risk incidents, ...

More oil and gas wells are drilled onshore than offshore, requiring more man hours and creating more exposure to risk. As a result, onshore drilling consistently has higher lost-time-incident (LTI) ...

In the past, the most common way to measure the safety performance of a business was to look at “lagging” indicators. The number of incidents and injuries would be metrics tasked with painting a ...

This review focuses on previously published academic literature on the use of safety leading indicators to manage employee safety. However, little documented knowledge exists regarding state DOTs’ ...

In March 2005, 15 workers were killed in an explosion in Texas City shortly after returning from a celebratory luncheon at which BP refinery personnel were congratulated on an outstanding safety ...

The board will release its preliminary findings during the July 23-24 hearing in Houston, and experts will discuss using leading and lagging indicators to improve process safety performance. Jul 03, ...

A robust system of process safety indicators might have revealed many of these management system deficiencies before the Deepwater Horizon disaster occurred, CSB investigators announced at a July 24 ...

This chapter describes recent efforts by the chemical and petroleum industries to define process safety metrics suited to the needs of their enterprises. It then discusses how such concepts can be ...

What is most important to measure with Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) processes? There are process and results indicators in BBS, and both need to be understood and managed. However, there is a single ...

WASHINGTON, June 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Chemistry Council (ACC) announced today that its members have achieved a historic trifecta of safety performance: record lows in transportation ...