Vinod, Sorry missed the thread, not always on here. I am surprised that IOSH have no standard guidance for you as this I presume is standard guidance and IOSH are the heart of safety, maybe their heart was on holiday this past week or so. LTIR incident rate = No of LTI X 1000 --------------------- Ave No of Employees Hope this helps Regards Wizard

Additionally you may be able to find competitors or other similar industries incident frequencies for comparison Des

I would suggest benchmarking against other companies that operate in similar conditions would be your best bet, however it should also reflect against you current performance.

Dear Vinod, Just a quick reply, (please feel free to E mail me if you want further information.) The first thing is to determine your historic performance, ideally taking into account seasonal variation by using a moving annual total. To do this you need obviously to collect the data, but you also need to define exactly what type of accident goes in each category - there are standard definitions for LTIFR and TRIF. Once you have this you can benchmark your accident rate either from the annual reports of other companies, through trade bodies or by using a benchmarking service such as SHEiiBA. A really important point here is to be really clear about what formula they use. A lot of large companies use LTIFR (Lost Time incidents Frequency Rate), but there are a number of different calculations Accidents per 100,000 hours worked (a working lifetime) Accidents per 200,000 hours worked (a hundred people working a year - US mainly ) Accidents per 1,000,000 hours worked (a nice round number) Similarly you may find the rate expressed as an incident (rather than a frequency) rate which is normally accidents per 1,000 employees. Once you have this data you can set the targets either using the benchmark, or using a %age reduction agreed with the management teams. I hope that this helps. Best Regards Neil