Posted By Paul Craythorne Barry, I believe setting a target of zero accidents is unreasonable. Any target must be achievable and if it is not achievable then people will become disinterested and disheartened. Non H&S people, and especially those in Director/Executive positions often have a 'Knee Jerk' reaction to fatal or very serious accidents at work. What you need to do is get them to jerk their knees in the right way. Look at your accident statistics over the past couple of years, identify any trends then identify where possible, what causes were attributable to the accidents. Based on this information then identify what corrective and preventive action programme(s) you need to develop and implement. These could be a multitude of things such as risk assessment, employee training and awareness, mechanical and engineering controls and almost certainly a level of management responsibility and accountability which can be measured and linked to overall performance. Good luck. Regards, Paul Craythorne

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