The first step to success in the construction industry is ensuring the safety of your most valuable asset—your employees. Use these four methods to improve the safety of your employees’ environment: Evaluating Your Safety Management Program Measuring the effectiveness of a safety management program is as important as implementing one in the first place. There are two common measures employed in the construction industry to evaluate internal safety programs: leading indicators and lagging indicators. Leading indicators focus on future safety performance, measuring factors that indicate value and direction of the initiative, such as the number of new safety controls implemented, risk and hazard evaluation and potential job hazard analysis. Lagging indicators measure facts and past events, such as the frequency and severity of injuries, workers’...