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Posted By paul harman
Morning all
Can anybody tell me what the AIR benchmark is for the construction industry please. The last figure I was given last year by the British Safety Council was 901.9.
Is there anywhere that companies publish their AIR's so that I can compare our figure with.
Regards
Paul Harman
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Posted By garyh
OK maybe I am being pedantic, but that is not a rate - it is a number. It could be, grazed knees per hundred hot dinners, LTIs per 1,000 hours, anything.
As a number on it's own, 900 ish could be terrible or great - without knowing the context of the units it is expressed in.
Cheers
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Posted By Jimmy R
Paul,
Sorry mate I can't answer your question.
Garyh,
I have always understood the AIR to be Number of accidents in a stated period OVER Average number employed during the period MULTIPLIED by 10,000. However it is always good sense to clarify how such rates are calculated when they are published.
If we are talking severity we can look at calculating ASR's separately.
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Posted By Crim
Garyh,
Thanks for your input, you made me chuckle.
Grazed knees and hot dinners eh, I'm now trying to get my head around that one.
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Posted By garyh
Apologies folks - as a lapsed scientist (Chemist) it was drummed into me to always always quote units and context.
I am better now since I discovered Stealth and Hasty.
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Posted By Jay Joshi
A few points regarding AIR:-
Always compare it with the relevant "multiplication factor" or what is the "standard rate used" , i.e. 1000, 10000 or 100000 employees. There is no prescriptive requirement. The HSE uses 100000 as the gives them AIR without too may zeros or decimal points. On the other hand,if you wanted to look at trends within you own organisation, you may want to use 1000 or even 100.
The British Safety Council figures for their awards schemes, as far as I am aware are "adjusted" to take into account under-reporting of RIDDOR Accidents to the HSE. The rationale is that organisations doing 100% reporting may be penalised if their AIR is above the HSE published one as it is well known that not everyone reports. The extent of adjustment is not arbitary, but uses the official HSE data for under reporting.
It is my understanding that the 2 digit SIC Inductry sectors in the ROSPA award scheme is also adjusted similarly.
I know this because I was one of the originators of this concept of adjustng the HSE AIR so that it takes into account under-reporting during my time with BSC
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Posted By Pat Hannaway
Paul,
the latest published HSE figures are in the HSE Research Report 386 "Trends and Context to rates of Workplace Injury" (Dated 2005).
It gives the following AIR's for the Construction Injury (Table 3.5)
Major Accidents : 150 per 100,000 employees
Over 3 day accidents: 300 per 100,000 employees.
Pat
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