LTIFR: 7 Distortions Executives Should Catch
LTIFR helps track injury absence, but it can hide fatal exposure, contractor transfer, underreporting, and weak safety governance.
Workplace safety, leadership and risk insights from the Headline Podcast editorial team.
Por Andreza Araujo Host & Editorial Lead
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LTIFR helps track injury absence, but it can hide fatal exposure, contractor transfer, underreporting, and weak safety governance.
Severity rate can reveal the real weight of injuries, but only when leaders read it beside SIF exposure, DART, trust, and work design.
DART rate helps leaders see restricted and lost work cases, but it becomes dangerous when executives treat it as proof of risk control.
A clean safety dashboard can hide weak reporting, fear, and filtered risk signals when leaders reward low numbers more than operational truth.
Near-miss volume can hide serious risk when reports lack energy, exposure, credible severity, barrier analysis, and verified control change.
A C-level safety dashboard should expose serious-risk controls, reporting integrity, supervisor capacity, and workload pressure before harm appears.
SIF leading indicators help executives see fatal-risk exposure before TRIR moves, using barrier health, permit quality, and action effectiveness.