Metrics

At the “OSHA Listens” public meeting, held March 4 in Washington, DC and attended by a large number of OSHA stakeholders, ORC Senior Vice President Frank White outlined three ways the agency could improve its policies and programs.

The American Industrial Hygiene Association’s new Strategy to Demonstrate the Value of Industrial Hygiene (aka, the Value Strategy), developed by ORC Worldwide, uses an eight-step process to identify and quantify the financial and non-financial links between industrial hygiene investment and business value.

A presentation on the Value Strategy was the highlight of the Tuesday plenary session at this year’s American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exposition. More than 400 people at the June conference attended two follow-up presentations

Companies benchmark to gain insights into best practices affecting worker safety and health. Benchmarking allows learning across companies, industries, and geographic lines, enabling development of improvement efforts in less time and at less cost. Identifying peer operations with superior safety and health performance is an important first step to pinpointing useful sources of best practice information.