I've sat through more safety performance reviews than I care to remember. Some are genuinely useful, while others involve working through endless slides of statistics, completed actions, training figures and colourful dashboards. Inevitably, there's a lot of green, which is reassuring, isn't it? But I've often wondered what we're actually reassuring ourselves about. If an organisation has completed 98% of its safety inspections, delivered all its mandatory training and closed

My MBA research began with a simple question. The answer proved more complicated, and more revealing, than I expected.

“Good safety is good business” is a familiar claim. But what does it mean, and are we measuring safety as part of organisational performance?