Course participants will be able to:

• identify the value of measurement and evaluation tools as they apply to today’s health and safety programs and management systems;
• demonstrate sound use of incident statistics as an indicator of health and safety performance;
• communicate the Safety by Objectives (SBO) process and set realistic safety-related goals and objectives;
• develop a Score Card to measure supervisory safety performance;
• articulate the differences between Health and Safety Programs versus Management System;
• articulate key strengths and weaknesses of the audit approach and demonstrate its use to improve chances of getting more effective and reliable data;
• recognize the complexities associated with human behaviour as well as articulate the strengths and weaknesses of the Behaviour-based Sampling (BBS) approach to measurement;
• speak to the importance of the corporate safety culture as it relates to safety excellence and use a perception survey to assess a relevant health and safety management system.