Hi All, Trying to bench mark with industry to see how good/bad our stats are but can't find data that I can comapre against. We are food manufacturing business. Accident Frequency Rate - (Lost times (not just Over 3 day) 100,000 hrs) = 2.24 Severity Rate - (Days lost per 100,000 hrs) = 22.93 Incident Rate - (no of accidents/injury per 100 employees) = 22.93 I know we haven't had a great year but to try and show us against industry I need a comparsion to reflect how good/bad we have performed. Any ideas or indication on this guys? Cheers,

You seem to be using wrong indicators, incident rates are the number of incidents multiplied by 100 divided by the number of employees not the number of accidents multiplied by 100 employees this only makes the incident rate that much higher and provides no useful information at all. Frequency rates are calculated by multiplying the number of accidents by 100,000 and dividing that by the number of hours worked. This is set out in my Ridleys and caries a warning that even these calculations can be subject to some variation in what they say.

ACCIDENT RATES There are various accident rates used to compare accident statistics. The MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR is to ensure that you use the same multiplying factor (MF) when comparing data There is no fixed or standard multiplication factor (MF). The choice can be influenced by either the MF used in the data you are comparing or for the purpose trend analysis/projections, the rates have manageable “numbers”, i.e. not having too many zeros or decimal places! INCIDENT RATE= TOTAL NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS X 1000/NUMBER OF PERSONS EMPLOYED Definition:- number of accidents per 1000 employees A factor of 100 000 is used by HSE for the “AIR” i.e. number of accidents per 100 000 employees Definition:- number of accidents per 100 000 employees FREQUENCY RATE = TOTAL NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS X 1 000 000 /TOTAL NUMBER OF MAN HOURS WORKED Definition:- number of accidents per 1 000 000 hours worked (Note:- Some tend to use a multiplication factor of 2 000 000 as this figure is the hours worked in a year by 1000 employees assuming they work 40 hours per week for 50 weeks in a year) SEVERITY RATE= TOTAL NUMBER OF DAYS LOST X 1000/ TOTAL NUMBER OF MAN HOURS WORKED Definition:- average number of days lost per 1000 hours worked MEAN DURATION RATE = TOTAL NUMBER OF DAYS LOST/TOTAL NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS Definition:- average number of days lost per accident DURATION RATE= NUMBER OF MAN HOURS WORKED/TOTAL NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS Definition:- average number of man hours between accidents