Electrical Safety Leading Indicators

Lagging indicators are helpful but leading indicators are more important and what drives results. As an example, if the goal is losing weight, measuring the weight (lagging indicator) everyday will tell you if you are losing weight or not, but it does not contribute to your goal of losing weight. Effective leading indicators are the number of workouts you have done or the quality of the food you eat. These measures and indicators will drive results. The same way for the electrical safety indicators – recording the number of incidents by itself does not reduce the number of incidents. Important leading indicators like implementation of electrical safety program or specifically wearing the proper PPE as required, are the ones that will drive the reduction of incident. The objective of this paper is to discuss in detail the leading indicators for electrical safety that will drive down electrical related injury.