RIF, Recordable Injury Frequency, the worldwide standard for judging safety performance, is often talked about as inadequate, but in actuality is seldom, if ever, replaced. Why use this concept?
- RIF is reactionary, not proactive
- RIF doesn’t give a hint as to what you should do differently to improve safety
- Why incent RIF performance when all it does is lead to hiding injuries and thus impede progress in resolving the recurring issues that should be addressed
- RIF means nothing to the front line worker where the risks are lived with every day
- We have all heard these arguments and more. Yet we keep slogging down this same old road expecting a different result, the classic definition of insanity.
A group of safety professionals recently met with the executive safety leadership of a Fortune 50 company that was struggling with the RIF plateau. A number of years back when their injury numbers were higher they attacked the RIF culture that existed, solved many conditional and regulatory issues and took a steep drop in RIF and its associated costs.
The full article is available at ISHN.com.
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