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Podcast: The Occupational Safety Leadership Podcast
Episode: Episode 86 - Safety Metrics
Description: Dr. Ayers introduces the purpose, structure, and limitations of safety metrics, emphasizing that metrics should help leaders understand system performance, predict future risk, and drive action—not simply generate reports. The episode stresses that many organizations misuse metrics by focusing on lagging indicators or treating numbers as goals instead of tools.
This episode sets the stage for the entire safety‑metrics series.
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1. What Safety Metrics Are Supposed to Do
Dr. Ayers explains that effective safety metrics should:
Reveal system health, not just outcomes
Predict future risk, not just record past injuries
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