Rethinking Safety Metrics: Why PSIFs are the New Standard for Evaluating Workplace Risks -- Occupational Health & Safety

Rethinking Safety Metrics: Why PSIFs are the New Standard for Evaluating Workplace Risks

Date: Tuesday April 21, 2026 at 2:00pm ET - 1:00pm CT - 11:00am PT

Not all incidents are the same. Some are relatively minor, some are near misses, and some are wake-up calls that should spur us to take a hard look at the effectiveness of our hazard controls and safety practices. Potential Serious Injuries and Fatalities (pSIFs) are workplace near-misses or incidents that fortunately didn’t end in tragedy—but easily could have had a devastating impact on your workers and your business. Compared to more traditional lagging safety indicators like total recordable incident rate (TRIR) or days away, restricted, or transferred (DART) rates, pSIF provides a leading indicator to help safety professionals more clearly identify where the greatest risks lie and develop more targeted preventive actions before they can lead to a serious injury or fatality. Lagging safety metrics are important, but relying too heavily on past performance and tracking all incidents in the same way means we’re potentially overlooking serious workplace risks.

pSIF represents a new school of thought in injury and illness prevention that is gaining serious traction among EHS leaders. Now is the time to revisit your safety metrics to ask what you’re doing to track pSIFs and how they can help you refine your safety and prevention programs. Whether you're in safety leadership, operations, or on the frontline, this session will give you actionable strategies to take pSIF risks head-on.

Learning Objectives:

Understand the significance of pSIFs and how to identify, assess, and track pSIF risks in accordance with the new ASTM E2920-26 pSIF standard.
Discover why lagging safety metrics often fail to help prevent SIFs and how safety leaders are incorporating pSIF into their incident reporting metrics to drive culture change and save lives.
How software technologies including AI and machine learning support pSIF tracking, analysis and insights.

About the Speaker:

Greg Duncan, Senior Content Manager, VelocityEHS

Greg Duncan is a Senior Content Manager at VelocityEHS, focused on providing EHS professionals with information and insights that help them effectively manage compliance and risk, and build safer, more sustainable workplaces. Greg holds a Master of Environmental Law & Policy from Vermont Law School, a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Illinois, and is a BCSP Certified Safety Professional (CSP).

Date: Apr 21, 2026

Time: 2:00PM PT

Duration: 1 hour

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