From Compliance to Readiness: How Layered Risk Management Reduces Severe Injuries and Fatalities
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Summary
The Avetta Insights and Impact Report 2026 analyzes three years of global safety and risk data (2022–2024) from across the Avetta network of 130,000 suppliers to understand what truly improves supply chain safety performance. The findings are clear. First, individual risk management capabilities—such as prequalification, safety audits, worker management, and business risk monitoring—consistently improve safety outcomes, particularly by reducing severe injuries and fatalities. Second, the data shows that when the right capabilities are layered together, safety performance improves dramatically. In several cases, suppliers using a layered mix of safety, business risk, and ESG capabilities experienced zero fatalities over the three-year period.
Based on this evidence, we offer three recommendations. First, start with prequalification as the supply chain safety foundation to establish baseline standards, create early visibility, and reduce fatalities by as much as 35%. Second, build beyond this foundation by expanding into additional capabilities across safety, ESG, cybersecurity, and business risk to deepen insight and control. Finally, connect such capabilities into an integrated system of continual improvement.
Organizations that take a structured, systems-based approach — guided by frameworks like Plan-Do-Check-Act — achieve the strongest and most sustainable safety outcomes. The takeaway is simple and powerful: stronger, connected supply chain risk management systems don’t just reduce risk — they protect people, strengthen operations, and improve business performance across the supply chain.
Speakers
Scott DeBow
Director of Health, Safety & Environmental
Avetta
Scott DeBow, CSP, ARM currently serves as the Director of Health, Safety & Environmental for Avetta. With extensive experience in safety management, serious injury/fatality (SIF) intervention strategy and risk-based learning, Scott plays a pivotal role in driving Avetta's mission to create safe, more sustainable supply chains.
Scott has over 25 years of experience managing and advising on risk and occupational safety. In 2023, Scott was elected by his peers to serve as the Director-at-Large for the executive board of the American Society of Safety professionals (ASSP) and is an active member of the ANSI Z-10 Committee for Safety Management Systems.
Nathan Goldstein
Senior Manager
Verdantix
Nathan is a Senior Manager at Verdantix, specializing in EHS software and the convergence of sustainability, EHS and operational risk. He leads research that helps corporate decision-makers navigate evolving environmental regulations, digital innovation and sustainability mandates, empowering them to align EHS performance with broader business and ESG goals. His current research agenda focuses on how technology and compliance strategies are evolving to support sustainability outcomes across operations.
Prior to joining Verdantix, Nathan was a Senior Analyst at Bluefield Research, where he covered the global water industry, with a focus on the energy, industrial and digital markets. He holds an MSc in Water: Science and Governance from King’s College London, a certificate in Sustainability and Innovation from Harvard University and a BSC in Marine Geology from Eckerd College.
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