Intervention effectiveness research:: A review of the literature on leading indicators

✍ Scribed by Joel M. Haight; Robert E. Thomas

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 99 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1074-9098
• DOI: 10.1016/s1074-9098(02)00454-9

✦ Synopsis

Intervention effectiveness research:

A review of the literature on leading indicators Workplace injuries and property damageÐand the safety and health programs designed to prevent themÐare expensive facets of contemporary industrial activities. Indeed, the National Safety Council estimates that the cost of work place injuries totaled $131 billion in 2000, a value equal to the combined profits of the top 13 Fortune 500 corporations in 1999 (National Safety Council website). Optimizing intervention strategies to decrease rates of injury and property damage with less costly safety and health programs would contribute to improved productivity and economic vitality in activities that involve such risks. Organizations whose activities involve risk of injury or destruction of property commit human and financial resources to intervention activities intended to prevent accidents, fires, spills, chemical releases, and unplanned shutdowns. The cost of implementing safety related intervention activities can be high if they are not effectively designed and optimally implemented.