Safety
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,…
First Analytics will once again be sponsoring this year’s OHS Leadership Summit. We have been looking forward to this opportunity to meet with Health and Safety professionals, to discuss how advanced analytics can help them in their mission of creating…
First Analytics, in partnership with SAS Institute, will be conducting a webinar on safety analytics on Tuesday, November 13. Is employee and public safety important to your company? Effective analytic strategies could help prevent incidents, accidents or even equipment failures…
We are an exhibitor again at the National Safety Council Congress and Expo in Houston, October 20-24. Please stop our booth where we can discuss how predictive safety analytics can help improve safety at your company. Meanwhile, check out this short…
We are participating in the SAS Manufacturing Executive Forum, which will be held at the SAS Campus in Cary, NC. On Wednesday, August 8th, we will present a breakout session entitled, "Use Analytics to Redefine your Approach to Safety." We…
First Analytics has become a member of the National Safety Council (NSC), a nonprofit organization with the mission to save lives by preventing injuries and deaths at work, in homes and communities, and on the road through leadership, research,…
Nearly all applications related to sensor and machine data aim to improve operational efficiency. For example in manufacturing plants, understanding what contributes to unscheduled downtime, and thus productivity, is a prevalent use case. Factors impacting quality and reducing scrap product…
You've heard of the four Ps of marketing. How about the four Ps of safety? The first three are the targets we focus on to foster safety: people; places; and processes. The last, predictive analytics, is a data-driven way to…
This is the time of year when many people are taking vacations. Be careful! Did you know that some workplace safety incidents can be tied to employees returning to work from their vacation? Well, this is true at times, but…
For the first time, First Analytics will be participating in the National Safety Council Expo, to be held in Indianapolis, September 25-27. With companies now collecting volumes of safety-related data, the time is ripe to apply advanced analytics to help…