Employee Safety and SIF Data Benchmarking

Occupational injuries and illnesses reduce the effectiveness of state departments of transportations (DOTs)' most critical resource: skilled and experienced workforces. With the challenge of recruiting and retaining employees, a healthy and present workforce is critical to mission success for state DOTs. Developing strategies and tactics to address employee safety and health requires performance benchmarking data, but there is currently no established framework to share safety or serious injury or fatality (SIF) data and best practices across state DOTs. The National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 637: Tracking Safety Leading Indicators to Improve DOT Employee Safety Performance details the current data sharing gaps among state DOTs in relevant metrics for data- driven decisions on safety initiatives and resources. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this research is to (1) facilitate a consensus definition of the most informative safety and SIF key performance indicators, (2) develop a collaborative framework and tools through which state DOTs can share employee safety and SIF data, (3) aggregate data on incident causes and factors, and (4) provide a framework for a working group between the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) and the North American Association of Transportation Safety & Health Officials (NAATSHO) to analyze and formulate actions together.

• Record URL:
  • http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=6013

Language

• English

Project

• Funding: $400,000.00
• Contract Numbers:

  20-24(157)

• Sponsor Organizations:

  National Cooperative Highway Research Program

  Transportation Research Board
  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)

  444 North Capitol Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Wadsworth, Trey

• Start Date: 20260323
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash injuries; Fatalities; Occupational safety; Personnel; State departments of transportation
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01979238
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: 20-24(157)
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: Feb 9 2026 8:28PM