A friend of First Analytics, aware of our safety work in the railroad industry, asked, "so what do you think of all the train derailments?" He had seen reports of three derailments just within the last few days. With the…
You won't want to miss a compelling demonstration of a predictive safety application, to be presented at the upcoming Utility Analytics Week in San Diego on October 19th. SoCalGas will present a coaching tool, based on machine learning, to support…
After three decades of steady decreases, the rate of highway/rail accidents bottomed out in 2012. But it has been trending upward ever since. The graph shows that in 2012 the incident rate reached its all-time low of 2.72 incidents per…
Join us for a webinar sponsored by the Community of Human and Organizational Learning. The topic is Add Predictive Analytics to Your Safety Management System. It will occur on Thursday, February 24, 2022, from 10:30 ET to 12:00ET. Here is…
We previously wrote about Goodhart's law and how it poses a challenge to analytics over a period of time in the sense that "when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." But that is not…
Goodhart's Law says that, "any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes." A generalized way of saying it is, "when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good…
In early 2020 the Federal Railroad Administration issued a final rule - 49 CFR Part 271 - to help railroads establish a "Risk Reduction Program" to improve the safety of its operations. Part of the rule states, “RRP is a…
Tom Davenport, Chairman of First Analytics, elaborately writes how Jeff Moore and Rosemary Perez led their analytics-based organizational change at Southern California Edison (SCE). In this article, Jeff and Rosemary passionately focuses on predictive safety analytics, understanding the factors, predicting…
In recent years, Chief Safety Officers, Risk Officers and line managers have undertaken a variety of programs to improve safety in their workplaces—whether on a construction site, on a shop floor, in a train yard or on a drilling platform,…
Join us on Thursday, November 14th at the North Carolina Safety Congress in Charlotte, NC where Rob Stevens will be the Opening Session Speaker. Rob will be discussing how predictive safety analytics can have a significant impact on your…