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Posted By Paul@Reynolds
Within my organisation we have an extremely good culture of reporting accidents and near misses. These are then discussed, close out actions identified, ownership given to actions, progress monitored etc.etc.
This system has been in place now for 3 years and we have recently been looking back at the number and type of events that people are reporting. Some interesting trends are showing. 1. Februray is a particular month for numbers of events, whether they be near misses or actual incidents. 2. September & October is also unusualy high.
Has anyone any experience of these peaks in incidents or does anyone know of any research that is being done or has been done into particular months being better or worse for incidents.
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Posted By Gavin
Paul
unfortunately klife is to complex for such a simple calander based risk assessment.
There are to many human factor influences on accidents, be it person, the organisation or job related to attribute it to a oparticular month. Afterall we will shortly see a load of self-inflicted sunburn cases, as opposed to winter slips and trips. However, if you have nothing better to do I suppose you could trawl the HSE's annual stats for some trend. However I suggest that there are better things to do as part of a cunning risk management strategy!!
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Posted By Delwynne
My company obviously had nothing better to do with their time and carried out a simalar analysis. Although looked at over a short term period (up to 4 years) 'time of occurence' trends seemed apparent, when looked at over a longer period (up to 10 years) these trends broke down.
The trends that did stand up were types of accidents (interestingly these did have some correlation to times of year).
I would suggest using trend analysis to highlight types of incident is going to be more productive for you. After all, what control measures can you put in place? No work in February on the grounds it is unsafe sounds lovely, but I can't see it being taken on board by many.
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Posted By peter gotch Paul HSE commissioned research on this from Univeristy of Warwick. Some months are statistically worse than others. See http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/archive/ier.pdfI suspect at least some of the variation relates to the "Mad March" effect when, especially in the public sector, the panic to spend budgets or get results in before the end of the financial year is underway. You might wish to look to see whether there is a trend relating to the type of accident that is giving you February as a bad month, eg slips and trips in your car parks, and within your buildings as the workforce cope with ice and rain? Regards, Peter
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Posted By Allan St.John Holt
If there is an effect there, it's probably down to some characteristic of your organisation. For example, at Royal Mail we experience the annual 'miracle of Christmas', with about 25% fewer accidents in December. We think it just might have something to do with overtime, Santa and all that. We are also starting to see an Easter miracle which is a little harder to explain.
Allan
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Posted By Laurie
Anyone in education, at any level, will tell you that September is a bad month for accidents, tapering off towards Christmas.
The reason for this, of course, is that that is when your new students and staff start!
Didn't need much research to work this out though!
Laurie
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