Safety Metrics for the Modern Safety Professional

11 How Modern Metrics Will Impact and Change the Role of the Modern Safety Professional

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Barack Obama

Citing the quote above has nothing to do with political convictions or parties. When I first read the quote, I thought it was the perfect description of where we are as a profession. We are all on a journey in which you are either on the train or at the station watching it go by. We are “professionalizing” as a profession and we can either stand by and watch or become agents of that change. As you read this book, I would hope one of the messages you get from these pages is that you are that agent of ...