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Metrics That Matter – Building a Balanced Set of Health Metrics Webinar Recording



Course Description:
Learn how you can implement leading health metrics to reduce health risks and improve your health protection program.

All well-run OEHS programs use metrics as part of their program management toolbox.

Traditionally, lagging indicators of health and safety in the workplace have been the most commonly used tools to indicate if health hazards, exposure prevention, and health-related risks are leading to injury and illness. Lagging metrics measure after-the-fact occurrences such as injury and illness rates and illness or disease prevalence. Such lagging metrics are not preventive, as worker health has already been adversely impacted.

Alternatively, leading metrics can assist with predicting and influencing health and safety performance. Leading metrics that focus on disease prevention and health preservation are not as prevalent as those that focus on health-related outcomes (i.e., illnesses). To fill the gap caused by too few leading health indicators, AIHA and the Center for Safety and Health Sustainability (CSHS) developed and published a Best Practice Guide for Leading Health Metrics in Occupational Health and Safety Programs.

This webinar will expand upon the concepts outlined and share a case study of leading health metrics applied to an OEHS program.

Join us to discuss the:

  • Value of leading health metrics to organizations
  • Implementation of leading health metrics to reduce health risks
  • Correlation of a balanced set of health metrics using numerators and denominators from valid data sets
  • Identification and use of leading health metrics appropriate to an organization’s operations

Learning Objectives:
  • Identify indicators of occupational health and safety performance that fit the AIHA/CSHS definition of a leading health metric.
  • Develop a balanced set of leading health metrics related to the prevention of an adverse health outcome.
  • Develop a balanced set of leading health metrics related to the promotion of a Total Worker Health® related outcome.
  • Inform others about the value of leading health metrics to health protection and health promotion.

Contact Hours:
1.5

Presentation Date:
04/30/2021

Presenters:
Alan Leibowitz, CIH, CSP, FAIHA
Paul Esposito, CIH, CSP
Paul F. Wambach, CIH (retired)
Stephen W. Hemperly, CIH, CSP, CLSO, FAIHA