Ep. 138: How can we improve the conversations we have around injury reporting?

Injury rates tell an incomplete story. David Provan and Drew Rae explore how adding an injury severity metric transforms safety performance conversations. They examine the 2026 Journal of Safety Research paper "Injury Rates Tell an Incomplete Story, but a More Complete Measurement Narrative May Be Possible" by Kevin Geddert, Sidney Dekker, and Drew Rae. Across three large organizational case studies, the researchers presented senior executives with their own injury data calculated three ways: total recordable injury frequency (TRIF), average injury severity, and a weighted combination called the Severity Adjusted Injury Frequency (SAIF). The results reshaped which periods, business units, and countries looked safest.