Workplace Safety Is a Tense Problem, Not a Data Problem

Since the inception of Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) in 1970, the industrial safety playbook has been unchanged; run another training, schedule another inspection and document every issue if the results have stagnated.

It is done in a similar way, but the needle isn’t moving. Over a decade, America’s workplace death rate has hit a sturdy wall, refuse to budge no matter how many millions are spent on compliance. In 2023, a worker died on the job in the United States every 99 minutes, a rate has hardly reduced in a decade.


At some point, more of the same stops being a strategy.

If we want to get past this plateau, safety has to start looking forward. The question isn’t only what happened or why it happened. It is whether we can identify the conditions that make an incident more likely before someone gets hurt.

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