Ep.55 Are injury rates statistically invalid?

Topics:

What it means when something isn’t peer-reviewed. Why statistics are ever popular. How many workers hours to decimal places. Using a model that weighs underlying variables and randomness. How this study is another nail in the coffin for this question. Practical takeaways.

Quotes:

“I’ve noticed in Australia, at least, there’s an increasing move to have safety statistics included in annual reports, at least for publicly traded companies.”

“And their conclusion was: Almost all of it was explained by randomness.”

“If recordable injury rates are used to record performance, then we’re actually rewarding random variation.”