Avetta report says integrated risk strategies drive better safety results

Avetta’s 2026 Insights and Impact Report says organizations see the biggest health and safety gains when they connect contractor prequalification, compliance and supply-chain visibility into one risk strategy. The report also spotlights the new Global Severe Injury Rate as a more consistent way to benchmark serious incidents across workplaces.

Why it matters: - Organizations can improve health and safety faster when risk data, compliance and supplier oversight work together instead of sitting in separate programs. - A shared metric for serious incidents can make workplace benchmarking more consistent across global supply chains.

What happened: - Avetta unveiled its 2026 Insights and Impact Report at its North America Summit Series. - The report says integrated risk strategies deliver the greatest health and safety gains. - The report was released in London on July 13, 2026. - Avetta says foundational controls such as contractor prequalification, compliance processes and supply-chain visibility remain essential. - The report argues the biggest gains come when those capabilities are connected into a unified strategy.

The details: - Avetta has helped develop and maintain the ASTM global standard for recording and benchmarking workplace incidents. - Avetta has already integrated the ASTM standard into its platform. - The Global Severe Injury Rate, or GSIR, is designed to better measure and compare serious workplace incidents. - GSIR is meant to shift organizations from reactive reporting toward proactive hazard identification and risk mitigation. - The report says distributed and unpredictable supply chains are forcing organizations to manage risk faster. - Arshad Matin, Avetta CEO, said health and safety performance does not improve by adding individual programs in isolation. - Lorraine Martin, CEO of the National Safety Council, said studies like the Avetta report and standards like ASTM E2920-26 help translate insights into action. - Avetta says its unified platform streamlines compliance, prequalification, safety and performance benchmarking in one integrated experience. - Avetta says 360,000 businesses across more than 120 countries use its platform.

Between the lines: - The report pushes a broader shift from tracking incidents after the fact to using shared standards and integrated systems to prevent them. - The emphasis on one global metric suggests benchmark consistency is becoming as important as collecting incident data. - Avetta is also positioning its platform as the operational layer that can turn those standards into day-to-day risk management.

What's next: - More organizations may adopt GSIR and similar benchmarking tools as global risk reporting becomes more standardized. - The report suggests companies will be under more pressure to connect contractor, compliance and safety data across their supply chains. - Avetta directs readers to more information for details.