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Appendix B: Safety and Environmental Metrics Employed by Private Companies Surveyed for This Report
Pages 29-32

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... incidents that safety closed on time to total have been closed by the due date number of action items Behavior-based process Personal/environmental/ Number of observations Leading Total number of observations made of a (BBP) observation transportation/process of behavior as part of a work group in a given time safety behavior-based safety program Percent safe BBP Personal/environmental/ Number of safe behaviors/ Leading The percentage of safe behaviors should be observations transportation/ process total behaviors less than 100 percent since your program safety should be looking at behaviors that you want to change and at behaviors that you are getting much better at Continued 29
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... Tasks that of critical procedure require a critical procedure are defined by required tasks performed the facility Quality of root cause Personal/environmental/ Number of minimum Leading RCI minimum criteria are defined by the investigation (RCI) transportation/process quality criteria met for the company safety RCIs in a given period Pretask hazard Personal safety Number of pretask hazard Leading Assessment can be conducted per person or assessment participation assessments performed per work group, weekly or monthly Performance tracking on Personal safety Number of defects found Leading Permit documentation is audited and any permits per permit mistake or omission is a defect (safe work permit/isolation of energy/confined space entry)
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... count resulting in personal injury or at least $500 in damage. MVA rate Transportation Number of MVAs per Lagging Includes all miles driven from company million miles driven owned, leased, or rented vehicles and miles driven on company business from personal vehicles Number of preventable Transportation Number of preventable Lagging accidents or number of product-carrying vehicle preventable accidents per accidents or a rate based unit time or distance on this number Number of high-severity Transportation Number of high-severity Lagging accidents or number of product-carrying vehicle high-severity accidents accidents or a rate based per unit time or distance on this number Number of rollovers/ Transportation Number of product Lagging rollover rate carrying vehicle rollovers or a rate based on this number Energy intensity Environmental British thermal units per Lagging   pound production Greenhouse gas (GHG)
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... Kyoto GHGs as CO2- Environmental Pounds of CO2-equivalent Lagging   equivalent intensity per pound production Assessment compliance Personal/environmental/ Assigned grade to Leading Commonly understood measure for performance transportation/process each area reviewed in assessing improvement in performance safety assessment Percent of safety alerts Personal/environmental/ Percent completion by Leading Drives implementation of lessons learned completed transportation/process facilities covered by alerts from safety incidents safety Number of potential Environmental Internally reported Leading Proactive measure of effectiveness of environmental potential environmental environmental program noncompliances noncompliances per month Number of significant Environmental Spills per unit time Lagging environmental spills Toxic release inventory Environmental Number of releases per Lagging on site releases unit time NOTE: RCI, root cause investigation; OSHA, Occupational Safety and Health Administration; RMTC, reportable medical treatment case; RWC, restricted work case; DAWC, days away from work case; LOPC, loss of primary containment; BBP, behavior-based process; RCI, root cause investigation; ES&H, employee safety and health; RI, recordable injury; GHG, greenhouse gas; GEI, greenhouse gas emissions. Source: Data provided by Corning, Dow Chemical, Motorola, and Praxair.
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Key Terms

  • process safety
  • work hours
  • unit time
  • environmental metrics
  • greenhouse gas

  • root cause
  • potential environmental
  • environmental spills
  • lagging accidents
  • lagging rmtc

  • illness rate
  • rate based
  • pound production
  • vehicle accident
  • ghg emissions

  • private companies
  • motor vehicle
  • osha requirements
  • osha illness
  • potential events

  • chemical emissions
  • companies surveyed
  • direct ghg
  • compliance tasks
  • cause investigation

  • metrics employed
  • miles driven
  • pretask hazard
  • lagging rollover
  • environmental program


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