Your Safety Metrics Don't Mean What You Think | James Pomeroy

We spend a lot of time in safety measuring things. James Pomeroy, Director and Global HSEQ Leader at Arup, thinks we skip the harder question. In this short interview from Safety on the EDGE 2026, James sits down with Scott Cuthbert to talk about what our safety numbers actually do once they leave the spreadsheet. 🔹 A safety metric is never neutral. It carries a context and a set of consequences, and most of us never stop to look at them. 🔹 Your people interpret the numbers, and that interpretation drives how they behave. What a metric means to you is not always what it means to the person reading it. 🔹 Visualization is taking off in safety, pushed by digitalization and the way short video has trained all of us to take in information. James ran a session on it with Jean-Christophe Le Coze. Whether you track a SIF metric or a traditional lagging number, the point holds. The number is only half the story. How people read it is the other half. If you lead safety, manage risk, or sit anywhere in EHS, this one is worth a few minutes of your day. 🎟️ Want more conversations like this one? Join our partner event Safety Connect 2026, October 20 to 22. Register here: https://register.safetyconnect365.com... 🔔 Subscribe for more interviews, keynotes, and field-tested insights from the Safety on the EDGE stage. #SafetyOnTheEDGE #SafetyMetrics #SafetyLeadership #SafetyCulture #HSEQ #EHS #WorkplaceSafety