Applying the 80/20 Rule to SIF Prevention in High-Risk Operations

Here’s an uncomfortable truth: while Total Recordable Injury Rates have dramatically reduced over the last 20 to 30 years, the fatality rate has stayed flat. What this tells us is that we’ve gotten good at preventing relatively minor injuries, but we have not been successful at preventing workplace deaths. Why? Because, as recent research has shown, the things that hurt people aren’t the same as the things that kill people.