Avetta Joins ASSP Z16 Committee to Advance Safety Metrics
The company will help shape evolving standards focused on leading indicators and data-driven safety performance measurement.
- By Stasia DeMarco
- Apr 24, 2026
Avetta has joined the American Society of Safety Professionals’ (ASSP) Z16 committee, a move aimed at advancing how organizations measure and improve workplace safety performance, the company announced.
The Z16 standard focuses on safety and health metrics, encouraging organizations to move beyond traditional incident rates and adopt a broader mix of leading and impact-based indicators to better assess risk and drive improvement.
By participating in the committee, Avetta will contribute industry insight from its work in supply chain risk management, where companies are increasingly seeking more predictive, data-driven approaches to safety performance.
The announcement builds on Avetta’s ongoing collaboration with ASSP to integrate consensus standards—including Z16 and Z10—into enterprise tools that translate safety culture and operational factors into measurable data.
Those efforts include embedding standards into Avetta’s Cultural Maturity Index, which is designed to convert qualitative indicators such as leadership and worker engagement into quantitative, standards-aligned metrics that organizations can use to benchmark and improve performance.
Industry groups say aligning technology platforms with consensus standards is a key step in shifting workplace safety from compliance-driven reporting to continuous, data-informed decision-making.
ASSP’s Z16 committee plays a central role in shaping guidance for safety performance measurement systems that help organizations identify gaps, reduce risk and demonstrate the business impact of safety programs.
Avetta, a provider of supply chain risk management software, works with organizations to evaluate contractor safety, compliance and performance across industries including construction, energy and manufacturing.
About the Author
Stasia DeMarco brings a strong and varied journalism background to her role at Occupational Health & Safety, having previously served as a multimedia editor, broadcast journalist, professor and reviewer across major news organizations. As Content Editor, she writes news and feature articles, hosts sponsor and editorial webinars, co-hosts the SafetyPod worker health and safety podcast, and manages the brand’s digital and social media presence. She is committed to informing and engaging the safety community through compelling reporting and conversations that support safer, healthier workplaces.