Under the Hood of Safety Performance: Using SMI and CMI to Build a Truly Ready to Work Organization

Across Canada, safety leaders are under pressure to prove that their organizations are not just compliant, but genuinely ready for the realities of today’s complex work. Incident rates and traditional lagging indicators reveal what has already gone wrong, not whether your systems and culture can reliably prevent serious harm in a fast-changing, contractor-heavy environment. In a world of small employers, layered legacy systems, digital tools, and increasing dependence on third-party workforces, you need a clearer picture of where fatal and serious risk actually lives and whether your organization is truly ready to work.

In this on-demand session from Avetta, Director of Health and Safety Scott DeBow and Principal for Health and Safety Wyatt Bradbury unpack what really drives safety performance by moving beyond compliance checklists and recordable rates. They introduce Avetta’s Safety Maturity Index (SMI) and Culture Maturity Index (CMI) – research backed tools that assess how well your systems and culture are actually working in practice, across both internal staff and contractors. You will see how these maturity measures, grounded in consensus standards such as ANSI Z16.1, Z10 and ISO 45001, turn disconnected metrics into actionable insight you can use to reduce SIF exposure, focus your resources and elevate safety performance across your Canadian operations and supply chain.

Key Takeaways

• Learn why relying on TRIR, DART and EMR alone can hide serious and fatal risk – and how SMI and CMI provide a more accurate, risk-based picture of performance.
• Discover a practical maturity model that links people, processes, data and technology so you can benchmark where your organization sits today and chart a realistic path from reactive to proactive and generative safety culture.
• See how Avetta’s tools help you evaluate contractors and small employers more fairly, going beyond red–green compliance status to understand true system capability and inform variance decisions without compromising safety.
• Understand how to turn inspections, audits, training and near miss data into meaningful leading indicators that actually predict outcomes and support better business decisions.
• Explore how to combine systems maturity and culture maturity insights to target interventions, strengthen engagement and build a learning organization where workers and contractors actively shape safer work.

Watch now and equip your team with a sharper lens on risk, culture and performance by registering for instant access today.