Employee engagement drives safety outcomes.

Through statistical meta-analysis of responses based on the Gallup’s Q12 employee engagement survey model and other research studies, the Gallup researchers compared top and bottom quartile organizations with respect to engagement. They looked at 53 organizations’ safety data. Between the top and bottom quartiles there was a 70% difference in safety performance. Safety measures included percentage of workdays lost as a result of incidents, number of incidents, or incident rates. As the meta-analysis shows, engaged employees have lower incident rates and therefore spend less time away from work.

REF — The Relationship Between Engagement at Work and Organizational Outcomes: 2016 Q12® Meta-Analysis: Ninth Edition (Washington DC: Gallup Inc., 2016)