Safety-trailing-indicator is a retrospective measurement construct that quantifies actual harm events, near-misses, and safety failures after they occur to evaluate past safety performance. Its parameters are (1) event type — recordable incidents, lost-time injuries, property damage, near-misses; (2) aggregation period — monthly, quarterly, annual reporting cycles; and (3) normalization — incidents per hours worked, per production unit, or per operational cycle. It persists through incident tracking systems, regulatory reporting databases, and organizational safety records. [formal: indicium | substrate: behavior | horizon: a moment | explicit: yes | epoch: 0.02]
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safety-trailing-indicator
Safety-trailing-indicator is a retrospective measurement construct that quantifies actual harm events, near-misses, and safety failures after they occur to evaluate past safety performance. Its parameters are (1) event type — recordable in…
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Why it is in scope
A human-made measurement construct that tracks actual harm events and their precursors after they occur — such as incident counts, injury rates, near-miss reports, and equipment failures — providing retrospective data on safety performance.
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- safety-trailing-indicatoren · CANONICAL
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A trailing indicator is a specific kind of safety indicator — one that looks backward at actual harm events rather than forward at leading signals. A competent speaker calls a trailing indicator 'a safety indicator.' Nearest kind: safety-indicator already exists (ACCEPTED), so this files against the correct rung on the ladder.
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Trailing indicators are designed and maintained for the sake of evaluating past safety performance. They quantify actual harm events, near-misses, and failures specifically to answer how well the safety system has performed. Law 8d: for-whose-sake test — reporting and measurement serve performance evaluation.
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A safety-trailing-indicator is a specific kind of trailing-indicator — it is the most recent value in a time-ordered sequence of safety measurements, used to assess current safety state or short-term safety trend. Law 9: a competent speaker would call a safety-trailing-indicator 'a trailing-indicator.' Files against the nearest kind.
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Pre-test: Safety trailing indicators serve safety protection — their designed purpose is to further safety protection's operation by providing early signals about deteriorating safety conditions. For whose sake? The trailing indicator serves the protection it monitors. Safety-protection is the master; the indicator is the servant.
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- Aug 1, 2026, 9:07 AM UTC
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