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I've just undergone a 4 day external H&S Audit where the auditor was not impressed with my annual accident analysis report to my Board of Trustees. I report number of accidents by type and compare with previous year. Where there is a reduction (or increase) I try to explain why. For example: on a particular stair case there were 15 trips, slips or falls during 2008 and only 5 during 2009. The reason for the reduction on this staircase was explained in the report (won't bore you with the work that was done).
I have not undergone any formal training in analysing accident data and wonder if there is a simple course I could attend afterwhich with this new skill I could produce a better accident analysis report.
If no course available how does everyone else carry out analysis of accident data?
Joe
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Morning Joe,
Why was the auditor unhappy? What were the specifics I supppose is what I mean. On the face of it what you're doing sounds OK to me, though just giving year on year is a bit narrow without longer-term trends.
Don't know of a course, there is a lot of information in various places such as HSG65 and so on,
John
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Joe
Maybe he would've like to see the data quantified in some way.
What I mean is, how can you tell if there is a real reduction / increase in accidents per the amount of people who could've had an accident?
Whenever I produce my accident data, it is using an Accident Frequency Rate which takes into account the number of people who could've had an accident.
James
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Joe,
The auditor should have been specific on the findings. However, you did mention "Accident Analysis", I think the best presentation is to indicate what your targets are for the period under review, then the actual performance and then reasons for the difference. For Board presentation, It will also be good to indicate your incident trend. These results will help your management in decision making. The Trip and fall case you mentioned is quite unacceptable for the same incident to occur over 15 times. This shows that there is no proper review and close out of actions from incidents.
Go back to your system and review your process.
for the training, You need Accident Investigation and reporting trainnig.
Comfort
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Thanks all for your replies - to Comfort
I said I wouldn,t bore you all with the solution to stopping people falling down the stairs. It was caused by condensation from a swimming pool - the stairs are adjacent. The solution cost thousands of £s i.e. sort the ventilation and air extraction etc and could not be done overnight.
So no courses on how to analyse accident data - I have (in the last 18 months) attended an Accident and Investigation course which doesn't go into analysis.
Thanks again
Joe
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IOSH have a worthwhile CPD course that covers how to check for all potential areas of root cause. I suggest you try that for a starter, and probably won't need anytrhing more?
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