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#1 Posted : 31 March 2003 15:30:00(UTC)
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Posted By Mark Large
I work in a demand led Health and Safety Unit.

We have been asked to provide a measurement of what we do so that when we aquire extra staff resources we can prove how much extra has being accomplished as a result of those resources.

Rather than re-invent the wheel I was wondering whether anyone here has a simple, unobtrusive system of measuring their work?
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#2 Posted : 31 March 2003 20:31:00(UTC)
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Posted By Laurie
Yes;it's called an accident book!

Laurie
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#3 Posted : 01 April 2003 11:37:00(UTC)
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Posted By Robert K Lewis
Laurie
So if it is a successful unit through hard work then there should be fewer entries and thus less work to do and so we can reduce the unit size.

Mark
Just reading this rang bells of "you must be in local government" Its not an easy task and you need to try and devise a measure based on say budget values and staff numbers v SA time, or risk levels v SA input. For my work I know that

Other possibilities could be based on number and time of active monitoring visits, ie those not related to checking in the event of a failure. If you go for auditing you could also look towards Corrective Action work and Non-conformance reporting investigations.

Bob
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#4 Posted : 01 April 2003 12:05:00(UTC)
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Posted By Mark Large
You are close, central government.

Already measuring accidents.
However, considered a measure of effectiveness and not output.

In other words you could do loads of work (high output) but it might not affect accidents as it is the wrong work (low effectiveness).

Typical Civil Service want evidence from all angles.
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#5 Posted : 01 April 2003 17:39:00(UTC)
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Posted By Jay Joshi
Many organisations only consider reactive measures of performance such as number accident rates, absence due to accidents??

I am sure you can justify it by using proactive measures of performance such as those listed in Annexe E of BS 8800:1996- GUIDE TO OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
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#6 Posted : 02 April 2003 18:13:00(UTC)
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Posted By Stuart Nagle
How about the following:

Previously and after new staff...

No. of Task risk assessments undertaken
No of risk assessment reviewed
No of training course provided
No of refresher training courses provided
No of inductions completed
No of site visits made
No of re-visits made
No of inspections undertaken
No of re0inspections made
No of actions implemented
No of actions implemented reviewed
No of safety procedures reviewed
No of works instructions reviewed
No of method statements reviewed
No of Fire/PPE/DSE etc risk assessments done
No of responses made to customer enquiries
No of customer matters completed
No of customer matters outstanding
No of letters written in response to..(any)

H&S inputs to:
CDM
Emergency planning and review
Environmental Matters and review etc
Contractors select lists and review
Schools safety matters
Highways safety issues
Trees safety issues
Planning safety issues
Building control safety issues
etd etc etc....

Hope this is some food for thought !!!


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#7 Posted : 03 April 2003 09:29:00(UTC)
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Posted By Sean Fraser
Mark,

There was an excellent publication recently issued by Step Change in Safety called "Leading Performance Indicators - A Guide for Effective Use."

It can be found on:

http://step.steel-sci.or...main_publications_fs.htm

It emphasises the difference between measurement and effectiveness, as you pointed out, and I think it might be quite useful to you and anyone else who may be interested i performance measurement.

Step Change in Safety is a free resource aimed at improving the safety culture in the UK Oil and Gas industry and although some subjects are industry specific they do have cover more general matters like this one.

Hope it helps.
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