The Safety Statistics Reporting Program is
designed for simple, confidential tracking of a
small set of safety data. The collection and
reporting of these safety statistics is an
important way for AWO and our members to support
continuous safety improvement in our industry,
since it is impossible to improve what the
industry does not measure.
In using the program, participants have access
to a valuable member benefit that allows the
production of reports and tools to benchmark and
compare their data against their self-selected
operating sector (inland, inland fleeting, and
coastal/coastal harbor) and AWO’s membership
overall. Participants may also view an anonymous
ranking based on the reportable safety factors,
available by industry sector and across all
users.
Your participation in the program helps AWO tell
the story of our members’ commitment to safety
by allowing us to benchmark member safety
performance against the towing industry as a
whole, the transportation industry overall, and
all U.S. workplaces. With your regular and
timely data entry, we can also engage our member
safety professionals to analyze aggregate data,
identify opportunities for improvement, and
measure progress over time. Beginning in 2021,
the Safety Leadership Advisory Panel will
release an annual Safety Statistics Reporting
Program report. This report will highlight
trends in the data on crew fatalities, injuries
and more.
SSRP data is tracked quarterly. Data is
requested at the end of the month following each
quarter’s close – on April 30, July 31, October
31, and January 31. The SSRP allows for
companies to enter historical data at any time,
so you can fill in gaps from past years (back to
2016, when the program was established) when you
log your most recent entry.
The data collected are vessel crew man hours,
crew fatalities, recordable injuries, lost-time
injuries, falls overboard, spills, and volume of
spills. If your company uses the Responsible
Carrier Program as the basis for its safety
management system, you are already tracking
these particular data points.
Data security is of the utmost importance. AWO
understands that program participants must have
high confidence that the sensitive data they
entrust to SSRP will be protected from incursion
and legal discovery. Salix Data is the company
who administers and hosts the SSRP program on a
secure website on AWO’s behalf to ensure
participant anonymity and confidentiality. Data
submitted into SSRP is secured and is considered
confidential. The data is solely intended to
provide reporting of safety statistics. Any
other use of this data is strictly prohibited.
