Safety-lagging-indicator is a retrospective safety metric that quantifies past organizational safety performance by measuring recorded incidents, injuries, near-misses, and system failures after they occur. It operates through four mechanisms: (1) incident recording — capturing events that breach safety thresholds; (2) statistical aggregation — computing rates (e.g., TRIR, DART) across defined populations and time periods; (3) trend analysis — comparing lagging metrics against historical baselines to identify deteriorating conditions; (4) regulatory reporting — feeding into mandatory disclosure frameworks. It persists through incident databases, audit trails, and compliance reporting systems. [formal: indicator praecognitum | substrate: behavior | horizon: a life | explicit: yes | epoch: 0.01]
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safety-lagging-indicator
Safety-lagging-indicator is a retrospective safety metric that quantifies past organizational safety performance by measuring recorded incidents, injuries, near-misses, and system failures after they occur. It operates through four mechani…
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A human-made metric that measures past safety performance through recorded incidents, injuries, and failures. Built to persist through safety reporting systems and regulatory records.
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- safety-lagging-indicatoren · CANONICAL
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A lagging indicator IS a specific kind of safety indicator: it signals past safety performance by measuring recorded incidents. Files against the nearest kind, per Law 9. (The previously struck edge was against safety-evaluation which is wrong kind; safety-indicator is the correct nearest kind.)
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A lagging indicator serves safety-management by providing measured past performance data (incident counts, severity distributions) that management uses for reporting, resource allocation, and trend analysis. Per Law 8d: the servant (lagging indicator) points at the master (safety-management). The indicator exists to serve the management function, not the other way around.
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- Aug 2, 2026, 6:11 AM UTC
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