Without knowing the type or size of organisation its hard to tell. If it isnt popular then consider doing it a different way, if you dont already do so, why not complete a more simple quarterly health and safety report? My suggestion is make it a mix of lagging and leading indicators, use either a 'volume-bar' configuration or 'speedo' type configuration. Alternatively (my preference) display performance data on a two year graph, possibly with a moving annual average? Things to include might be: Accidents Serious accidents violence or customer accidents leadership tours or internal inspections work related ill health Scheduled safety training Other measures of management of H&S The list goes on, but a former boss of mine had some excellent advice for this kind of thing 'keep your eye on the ball and not the scoreboard' - in other words dont let the dashboard dominate H&S, behind this quantitative data there needs to be qualitative information absorbed by leadership.

A simple dashboard in March SHP mag by Steve Pointer on leading indicators, lagging indicators, processes and competence seems S.M.A.R.T . One can amend accordingly. I have started on the lagging and competence sides of the dashboard in a company since September last (approx. 1000 employees, manufacturing of construction’s products, 10 production sites including a mechanical / electrical section , 4 outlets of imported finishing goods, 2 h&S practitioners.

Dashboards have been around since the fifty's and were developed for reporting by French Engineers working for General Electric and entitled ‘Tableau de bord’ - they are widely used in risk management and are now being used by quite a few safety managers. I disagree with other posters I have used them extensively with some massive successes - but they are as good as the information you put in them. Set up correctly they target areas risk and then off you go - the more quality data entered the better results. Fore example - if you are a small organisation and having only a few accidents then DB's will be a little use, simple accident management arrangements will do - however larger and you have more data the more assistance they will provide. In my current company ( it's big with millions of members of the public coming on the premises) with the use of this approach we nearly halved accidents and there were in the 1000's. You need to understand what you want from the DB's - your organisations needs will vary from another's - that’s the starting point. What do you want to identify, control and measure - the end product will depend on what you put in.