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Most safety dashboards are built from lagging indicators: events that have already happened, counted and normalized. They are useful, and a falling recordable rate is real progress. This briefing sets out why a green indicator should open a conversation rather than close one.
What a lagging indicator measures
A recordable injury rate counts outcomes across all kinds of work. Serious injuries and fatalities (SIF) are rare and often come from a narrower set of high-energy tasks, so a rate dominated by frequent, lower-severity events can move without saying much about SIF exposure.
Exhibit 1 Illustrative data
In this illustrative review, most high-potential events had a precursor already on record
Where the earliest precursor was recorded, illustrative sample of high-potential events, count
SourceIllustrative data for design purposes only. Not a research finding and not to be quoted.
NoteValues are placeholders chosen to demonstrate the exhibit format. They describe no real events.
Data behind this exhibit
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Near-miss report | 11 |
| Maintenance backlog | 8 |
| Permit deviation | 6 |
| Audit finding | 4 |
| No prior record | 3 |
Cite this exhibit
Before the Incident, “In this illustrative review, most high-potential events had a precursor already on record,” Exhibit 1 (2026). Illustrative data; not a research finding and not to be quoted. Link
Three questions for Monday morning
- Which of our critical controls were verified in the field this month, and by whom?
- Which high-potential events did we learn about from someone who chose to report them?
- Which indicator would change first if a critical control quietly degraded?
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The current report
The controls that prevent a fatality
Many operations have spent a decade driving recordable injury rates down. This report asks whether the controls that prevent a fatality have improved at the same pace, and how a leadership team would know.