Avetta webinar tackles how SMI and CMI reveal hidden risk in operations and contractor networks
Safety leaders have their feet to the flames when it comes to delivering programs that don’t just sound good in theory, but genuinely account for the realities of modern work. To put it plainly, “compliant on paper” is simply no longer good enough on its own.
Traditional measurements such as incident rates, TRIR, DART and EMR — while important —tend to show what’s already gone wrong. They rarely reveal whether a business has systems and culture that can reliably prevent serious harm.
A new on‑demand webinar from Avetta digs beneath the surface of those traditional metrics to uncover what really drives safety performance. Under the Hood of Safety Performance: Using SMI and CMI to Build a Truly Ready to Work Organization gives Canadian safety professionals a practical way to see where serious and fatal risk actually lives across both internal operations and contractor networks.
In this session, Avetta Director of Health and Safety Scott DeBow and Principal for Health and Safety Wyatt Bradbury illustrate how recordable rates and compliance checklists are isolated statistics that fall short of capturing the way work is really done. They introduce Avetta’s Safety Maturity Index (SMI) and Culture Maturity Index (CMI), research‑backed tools grounded in ANSI and ISO standards that assess how well safety systems and culture are functioning on the ground.
With insights drawn from people, processes, technology and culture, viewers can benchmark where their organization sits today. This collection of interrelated data points also allows them to identify blind spots that traditional indicators miss and chart a realistic path from reactive to proactive.
The session also tackles one of the toughest challenges for Canadian safety leaders: managing risk in contractor‑heavy and small‑employer environments. DeBow and Bradbury explore how maturity‑based measures help you look past TRIR spikes and red–green compliance scores to understand true capability. They demonstrate how this approach supports fairer evaluation of smaller contractors while still maintaining a strong, defensible standard for safety across the supply chain.
Do you suspect that your metrics aren’t telling the whole story? Are you struggling to turn audits, inspections, training records and near‑miss data into meaningful leading indicators? Chart a practical — and safer — way forward. Watch the webinar on demand to equip your team with a clearer, risk‑based picture of where serious exposure actually sits across your Canadian operations and contractor network.
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This article was produced in partnership with Avetta
