Ashlar: a safety score you can actually explain
Ashlar is one forward-looking measure of how safe your workplace is about to be, calculated from your own incident, near-miss and hazard reporting. Auditable, honest, and impossible to game. Built by a Lead Auditor, not a black box.
One number. One trend. One named next action.
Not a dashboard of twelve tiles nobody acts on. Each month you receive a signed report with the index, where it moved, and the single thing to do next, with an owner against it. The working sits underneath, open for anyone to check.
A forward-looking measure
Anchored to serious-injury and fatality potential, not last quarter's lost-time rate. It tells you how safe the next month is shaping up to be.
It rewards reporting
Detection and response lift the score. Reporting less cannot improve it, which is the exact failure of the injury rates it replaces.
Delivered by people
Expertise with a tool attached, not software left to gather dust. Every report is prepared and signed by a Lead Auditor who can explain it.
Laid in courses, one month at a time
It works from month one and sharpens as the data accumulates. No two-year wait before you see anything.
Your own reporting
Incidents, near-misses and hazards from the systems you already run. No new hardware, no surveillance of workers.
A gated index
Each component must clear its own gate. No weak signal hides behind a strong one, so a good area cannot mask a bad one.
A signed report
Board-ready evidence each month: the score, the movement, the working, and the name of the auditor who prepared it.
One action, owned
The single priority to act on next, with a person against it and a date. Next month shows whether it moved the number.
What ashlar means, and why a safety index carries the name
Ashlar is finely dressed stone: cut square and true, faced on every side, and laid in level courses so that each block bears its share of the load. It is the opposite of rubble. Nothing is packed in behind the face to make up the difference, and nothing is hidden.
The Inca built that way without mortar. At Cusco, Sacsayhuamán and Ollantaytambo, stones weighing many tonnes were dressed so precisely that the joints between them are still tight five centuries later, through repeated earthquakes that levelled the mortared colonial buildings raised on top of them. The walls hold because every stone is true, not because a binder is holding the errors together.
That is the method IncaSafety takes into safety measurement. Each component of the index must be sound in its own right and must clear its own gate. A strong result in one area cannot be used as mortar to pack out a weak one, and the index can be taken apart, block by block, by anyone who asks how it was reached.
The mark
The mark is a battered trapezoid doorway, the Inca form that survives the earthquake because it leans inward as it rises. One course is left open across it. An opening you look through, not a box you are shut out of.
The category is loud about prediction. We would rather show the working.
Built for the people the duty actually lands on
Directors and owners
Documented due-diligence evidence you can table at a board meeting, in language that survives a regulator asking how you knew.
The safety office
One number to report upward and one priority to work on, with the full working available the moment somebody questions it.
Supervisors and crews
The score and the next action, legible on a phone in daylight. Nothing that judges the person reporting.
Questions we are asked before anyone signs anything
What is the Ashlar Predictive Safety Index?
A single forward-looking measure of how safe your workplace is about to be, calculated from your own incident, near-miss and hazard reporting and delivered each month as a signed report.
What does the word ashlar mean?
Finely dressed stone, cut square and true and laid in level courses so that each block bears load without mortar.
How is it different from other predictive safety software?
Every score decomposes. Each component must clear its own gate, so a strong area cannot mask a weak one, and the working behind any month is open to inspection.
Can under-reporting improve the score?
No. Detection and response lift the score, so reporting less cannot improve it. That is the failure mode of the injury rates Ashlar replaces.
When is Ashlar available?
Ashlar is in final development. Register your interest and we will contact you before the first intake opens in Australia and New Zealand.
Ashlar opens to a first intake of IncaSafety clients.
The methodology is settled and the first reports are being prepared. If you would like your operation considered for the first intake, tell us and we will be in touch before it opens.
IncaSafety continues to deliver WHS management systems, ISO certification support, psychosocial risk assessment and training across Australia and New Zealand.