2. WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES
We will address these key questions:
§ What are health, safety and environment leading
indicators and why are they important?
§ How do you implement a leading indicator program to
create change with technology?
§ How can you use collected data as a powerful means to
create change?
Ultimately, how can you use real time leading indicator
data to improve safety?

3. PRESENTATION OUTLINE
§ Introductions
§ Lagging and Leading Indicators
§ Ledcor’s Success Story
§ Technology and Leading Indicators
§ Data and Reporting
§ Workshop – It’s Your Turn!
§ Your Results
§ Summary

4. Ryan Yada, P. Eng.
A leader of transformation and change with 15 years’
experience as a technology and business professional, helping
organizations solve some of their greatest challenges with
technology solutions and inspiring teams to achieve the
impossible.
Ryan’s work spans industries and continents, with
organizations such as Ledcor, Stantec, SNC-Lavalin, and now
Hitachi Solutions.
Roberta Sheng-Taylor, CRSP, CHSC
A strategic planner, marketer, occupational health and safety,
education and training and communications professional with
over 25 years’ experience working with small and international
teams.
Recipient of numerous awards including: BC Lieutenant
Governor General Award for Public Safety, CSSE President’s
Award and Recognition for Canada’s first highway safety
corridor in BC’s Fraser Canyon.

5. AUDIENCE POLL
§ Do you know the difference between lagging and
leading indicators?
§ Do you have a leading indicator program currently in
place?
§ Is your leading indicator program effective?
§ Can you prove it?

6. JAMES REASON: SWISS CHEESE MODEL
Lagging Indicators: Measures activities and
actions after an incident
Leading Indicators:
Measures activities
and actions before
an incident
Safety Management System

7. LAGGING SAFETY INDICATORS: REVIEW
§ Studied and employed to prevent recurrence of incidents.
§ Measures activities and actions after an incident (system failures).
Examples:
§ Total Recordable Injury Frequency =LTIs + MAs + RWC s x 200,000
Person hours worked
§ Lost–time Frequency = LTIs x 200,000
Person hours worked
§ Severity Rates = Number of Lost days
Person hours worked

8. LEADING SAFETY INDICATORS: REVIEW
§ Studied and employed to identify issues/hazards before they result in incidents.
§ Measures activities and actions before incident occurrence (SMS weaknesses).
Activity-based Indicators:
§ # of workplace inspections, # of safety meeting attendees, # of
supervisors who completed monthly inspections
Results-based Indicators:
§ What types of hazards or issues were discovered during the inspection?
Leading Indicators measure what people are doing today
§ Which supervisor is consistently completing monthly inspections for the
past quarter?
§ How often has there been senior management representation at safety
meetings?
§ What safety topics, at last month's safety meeting, are common across
the department, division, company?

9. HS&E LEADING INDICATORS: MANAGEMENT
Operational: Activity Measures
§ Used at the supervisory level (at the worksite)
§ Inspections performed, employees trained, hazard assessments
completed, worker observations conducted, etc.
Tactical: Activity and Results Measures
§ Mixture of activity and results used at the middle management level
(branch)
§ Proactive recognitions completed, inspection results acted on, review of
property damage reports
Strategic: Results Measures
§ Used at the senior management level (division-, company-wide)
§ Monitoring of supervisors and branches, review of property damage
reports, sampling worker observations, proactive recognition, etc.

10. LIFE IN THE DAY OF A SAFETY PROFESSIONAL
§ Safety is thrown into the organizational “spotlight” after a
workplace incident occurs.
§ Safety is seen as a support system to the organization or a "bolt
on" to operations.
§ May or may not have a seat at the senior management table
(regular).
§ May or may not be considered in key organizational decisions.
§ Management understands safety in terms of lagging indicators.
§ How can you measure incidents that didn't happen or were
prevented?
§ You can change the perception, role and importance of safety
through the use of a “data to decisions” system.

11. PLAN - DO - CHECK - ACT: SMS & IT
§ Plan: Engage senior management to be
accountable and responsible for worker
and workplace safety
§ Do: Confirm that operations
(departments) ensures safety-related
activities are carried out routinely at
every work site.
§ Check: Identify hazards and control risks
before issues and hazards become
incidents
§ Act: Communicate safety activities
progress.

13. From HSE to the Enterprise:
by the numbers…
30 Day Pilot
35 Users across North America
285 inspections
738 hazards identified
100% 0f users want to use electronic device to
complete more HSE forms
94% see the value of collecting data electronically
Potential serious injuries prevented!

14. From This…
To This…

18. TIPS FOR TECHNOLOGY PROJECT SUCCESS
1. Don’t make it about the technology
2. Clearly define Why
3. Clearly define What success looks like
4. Assemble a Guiding Coalition
5. Communicate, communicate, communicate
6. Launch a Pilot. Assemble a diverse pilot user group
7. Leverage agile methodology
8. Focus on optimizing mobile User Experience
9. Spend time to train
10. Put support in place

23. TIPS FOR REPORTING SUCCESS
1. Start at the End
2. Involve stakeholders at all levels to define
3. Enter once, report many
4. Don’t get hung up on the technology
5. Focus on quality data
6. Iterate and improve
7. Design with your audience in mind
8. Empower your employees

24. WORKSHOP – IT’S YOUR TURN…
§ You’re a field supervisor at the "Speed of Light Transportation and
Technology" company: a truck transport and telecom service company.
§ You are completing a monthly workplace inspection at a field site or in one
of the dispatch or operations offices.
§ We have provided you a reference document for the scenario/
workshop.
General Instructions:
1. Please open the application on your phone, tablet, laptop.
2. Select one of the supervisor names from the list. (Not every name
needs to be used.)
3. Identify any hazards or issues listed or any hazards or issues you
observed from the photos (observations you made). If you wish enter
any driver, office or technology hazards, data you are aware of).
4. Press the Submit button when finished.
5. Share your phone any members of your group if required. (Please help
your neighbors if required.)

25. Link to form
Link to results
Link to post-conference site
NOW LET'S LOOK AT THE RESULTS

26. AUDIENCE POLL: SURVEY YOUR FEEDBACK
Definitions of Success:
§ Technology: I was able to fill out the form and upload
data.
§ Reporting: Common issues were identified or
highlighted.
§ Compliance Reporting: Through activity reporting, we
are able to identify who are the engaged players.

27. LEADING INDICATOR RECOMMENDATIONS
1. Leading indicators must measure regular, proactive supervisory or team
activities (including collected results data)
2. System must be flexible, allowing choices of activities at all levels to
instill leadership
3. Apply Plan-Do-Check-Act:
§ Supervisors - activity-based indicators
§ Middle Management - activity and results based indicators
§ Senior Management - activity and results based indicators
Senior Management
1. Senior management must visibly demonstrate high value in organization
2. Ensure middle management tasks and activities are carried out
3. Measure supervisor/team performance and ensure performance quality
4. Engage in well-defined activities to show that safety is important

28. TECHNOLOGY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE
IMPLEMENTATION
1. Don’t let Technology be a constraint, leverage the Cloud.
2. Create a Vision for Success.
3. Ensure everyone knows Why this is important.
4. Create a Coalition of the Willing.
5. Don’t underestimate training requirement.
6. Launch a Pre- and Post-survey to measure improvement.
7. Put in place support Post-launch.
8. Create a Player’s Scorecard.
9. Get the data in your people’s hands.
10. Iterate and improve in agile methodology.

29. DATA TO DECISIONS
§ Use Visual Analytics to present data
more intuitively or show data in a more
meaningful way (allowing users to
discover facts more easily)
§ Develop a Performance Program
Framework
§ Setting organizational goal
§ Identifying objectives required to meet goal
§ Developing performance indicators
§ Design and implement Cloud-based
Program
§ Collect meaningful data
§ Record performance results
§ Analyze collected and reported data
§ Use data to drive decisions to prevent
incidents, improve safety performance and
ensure workers go home safely at the end of
every day.
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31. Thank You for the opportunity to share this
with you!
Questions?

32. Ryan Yada, P. Eng.
Hitachi Solutions Canada
ryada@hitachi-solutions.com
CONTACT INFO
Roberta Sheng-Taylor
Ledcor
roberta.sheng-taylor@ledcor.com