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Safety policy

Objectives that measure themselves

A safety objective is usually set once, agreed in a room, then measured by hand the week before the review. In RISE it reads its own number from the records you already keep, and raises a notice when it crosses the line you set.

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A safety objective to decrease landings outside the touchdown zone, monitoring, with three indicators, six targets and no open breaches. Its indicator counts SOP adherence issues reported after each flight, charted monthly against an alert limit and a goal, and two people are working alongside it: one reporting from a phone on the ramp, one reviewing on a laptop

Most safety objectives have no tracked data point behind them

Setting the goal is the easy part and everybody does it. Knowing where you are against it, at any moment, without requesting a report from someone, is the part that decides whether it was a goal or a line in a manual.

Indicators

It counts your records, not your recollection

An indicator is a rule you build against what the system already holds: form submissions, risk evaluations, hazards, controls, internal audits, safety cases, actions, promotions, meetings. Pick the source, narrow it to what you actually mean, and it measures itself.

That removes the step where somebody assembles the number by hand. It is the step where the figure goes out of date, and where two people counting the same thing come back with two different answers.

  • Built from nine kinds of record you already keep
  • Narrowed by the conditions that matter to you
  • Recomputed nightly, not when somebody remembers
Building a new safety performance indicator: risk evaluations as the source, lower is better, measured monthly, counting records where status equals active, with a medium target at 5

Targets

The line, and where you are against it

A target sits on an indicator and the chart shows both: what is happening, and what you said should happen. Progress against a safety goal becomes something you look at rather than something you prepare.

  • A target on any indicator
  • Charted over time against the line you set
  • An objective rolls up the indicators under it
A safety performance indicator counting hazard reports each month, on track at 14 against a target of 10 per month, with its recent measurements of 14, 12 and 9 and its history charted behind

Breach notices

Told when it crosses, not when somebody looks

When an indicator goes past its target, that is recorded as a breach and the people who need to know are emailed. The alternative is that the objective is fine until the quarterly review says it has not been fine for two months.

  • A breach recorded when the line is crossed
  • An email, at the time, not at the review
  • Objective health rolls up across its indicators
A safety performance indicator in breach: inspections completed fell to 4 this month against a minimum of 6 per month, after 8 and 7 the two months before

The policy statement

Where people can actually find it

Your safety policy statement lives in the system, next to the work it governs, rather than on a shared drive that people learn the path to once and then forget. It is a small thing, and it is the difference between a policy that exists and a policy that is read.

The safety policy statement in the app, with its version history showing it was last uploaded by M. Ellery on Oct 5, 2026, and options to replace, remove or export it

Questions

Questions people ask

What is a safety performance indicator?
A measure of something the operation cares about, built as a rule against records it already keeps, such as the rate of a hazard type over time. A safety performance target is the level you are aiming for on that indicator.
Where do safety indicators get their numbers from?
From your own records. An indicator is built as a rule against form submissions, risk evaluations, hazards, controls, audits, safety cases, actions, promotions or meetings, narrowed by conditions you set. They recompute overnight rather than when somebody remembers.
What happens when a target is missed?
The breach is recorded against the objective and the people who need to know are emailed, at the time rather than at the next quarterly review. Objective health rolls up across the indicators underneath it.

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