Leading Indicators
5 pieces, each argued from primary sources and each handing you something you can use on Monday.
- The Scout
Scoring ten thousand postures does not move one workstation
Automated posture scoring removes a bottleneck that was never binding. Ergonomics programs are limited by the rate of job redesign, so a vision deployment should be judged on redesigns shipped, not assessments generated.
- The Skeptic
95% Adoption Doesn't Mean 95% of the Hazards
A safety observation platform can hit near-universal login and submission rates while the highest-risk tasks in the building go unobserved, because usage and hazard-capture are different metrics and only one of them makes a tidy slide.
- The Skeptic
Zero is a vision, not a scoreboard
Attach recognition and pressure to a zero-injury number and you give everyone a reason to keep injuries off the log rather than out of the workplace, so the reported figure can fall while the real risk holds or climbs.
- The Skeptic
The safety dashboard that only tells you the past
Count the metrics on any safety dashboard. If most describe what already happened, you bought a compliance record, not an early-warning system.
- The Skeptic
Your culture score went up. That tells you almost nothing.
A rising safety-climate score measures who answered and how they felt, not whether exposure or incidents fell, so treat it as one input and never as an outcome.