All too often when safety professionals, or executives encounter resistance to change, they “explain” it by quoting the same old tired cliche “People Resist Change” and never look further. Yet changes must continually occur in every industry.

This applies with particular force to the all-important “little” changes that constantly take place or changes in work methods, in routine office procedures, in the location of a machine or a desk, in personnel assignments, job titles, and use of language.

The Root cause of this type of reactive approach stems from the fear of falling behind or losing one's status in the safety industry.

My goal is to encourage you and other Safety Practitioners to actively promote and incorporate Safety Performance Indicators (SPI) into your safety management system to establish quantifiable risk stressor units called, Key Risk indicators (KRIs).

Losing the jargon, and using valuable forecasting tools to prevent more serious workplace injury and illness in real time. Let's move our profession into the 21st century, by adopting and actively promoting SPIs. 

We have been submissive to quality and production terminology for long enough.To put simply measurements can be decisive in driving an organization towards safety excellence. With that expressed, I also encourage safety practitioners to incorporate SPIs, KPIs and KRIs into there safety management matrix losing useless jargon like nimrick.