Absence of injury, absence of data...

You can't judge how compliant, experienced or competent your people are on the amount of accidents, incidents or health issues you have or don't have.

The absence of an accident, incident or illness is not an accurate judging criteria for personal performance as there is no data point.

The happening of an accident, incident or illness is not an accurate judging criteria of personal performance as there is only one data point. A data point that is an output, a result.

Neither are these accurate measures of business performance.

Day to day performance is only knowable by...

1 - having a criteria in which to measure expected versus acted.
2 - measuring expected versus acted.

Improvement on day to day performance is only possible by...

1 - providing consistent, pinpointed feedback on expected versus acted.
2 - purposefully practicing to close the gap between expected versus acted.