Reactive vs Proactive Safety

Reactive vs Proactive Safety

Does your safety system act before something happens?

Measure whether your organisation mainly reacts to incidents and audits, or actively looks for weak signals and changing risk before harm occurs.

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What this check looks at
01Triggers
02Leading signals
03Planning
04Learning before harm
Scope: This is a screening tool. Use it to identify questions to verify in the real workplace; the result is not a certificate or permission to continue unsafe work.
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Why this matters

Lagging indicators tell you where harm has already happened.

A proactive system also watches capacity, control degradation, overdue obligations, exposure trends and changing work conditions — signals that appear before the injury statistic.

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