[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Safety Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are just under one week away from our August (2023) Safety Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Tuesday, August 22 at 2:00 PM CT, we’ll be joined by Elif Erkal, PhD, Senior Associate at Exponent who will be leading a discussion around, “Moving Beyond Injury Rates: Best Practices in Measuring Safety to prevent serious injuries and fatalities (SIF).” As this discussion will be interactive, we encourage you to come prepared with questions and your insight.

Learn more about this session and our speaker below!

Session Description:

We cannot manage what we cannot measure. The success of any safety management system heavily depends on the quality of metrics it measures to evaluate safety performance. Traditionally, the industries use incident rates that only capture the counts of incidents as their main method of safety performance measurement. However, recently both industry and academia concur that these rates are too limited in their capacity to facilitate robust safety performance measurements to inform safety decision-making and predictions. In this presentation, Dr. Elif Erkal explores the limitations of injury rates and presents new and improved strategies that could help improve safety performance measurements.

Speaker: Elif Erkal, PhD, Senior Associate (Exponent)

Dr. Elif Erkal is a Senior Associate in the Construction Consulting practice of Exponent. She has a PhD in Construction and Engineering management from University of Colorado Boulder specializing in safety performance measurement and predictive analytics for serious injury and fatality prevention. Her focus is on data and knowledge management systems, predictive analytics, organizational design; providing technical, analytical, operational, and organizational support in various industries including utilities and construction. Previously, she worked in the oil and gas industry as a contracts manager and completed her earlier graduate work in Carnegie Mellon University, which had an emphasis on operational networks, and organizational learning in construction.  

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Thanks and we look forward to connecting next week!

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Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-01-2023 10:37
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming August (2023) Community Conversation

Hello Safety Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! With August just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our August (2023) Safety Analytics Community Conversation. On Tuesday, August 22 at 2:00 PM CT we’ll be joined by Elif Erkal, PhD, Senior Associate at Exponent who will be leading a discussion around, “Moving Beyond Injury Rates: Best Practices in Measuring Safety to prevent serious injuries and fatalities (SIF).”

I’ll be providing more information on this session, including our Microsoft Teams credentials, one week prior to our meeting but you can always learn more about each of our upcoming Community Conversations on our Events Page HERE.

If you have any questions in the meantime please reach out to me at kpraet@utilityanalytics.com.

 

Thanks!

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Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
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