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Folks
Could anyone give me advice on the best way to analyse accident statistics. At the minute we analyse them as minor (entry into accident book) and major (over 7 day). We then discuss them monthly ad make sure actions have been taken against them. However, we are now looking to analyse them in more detail so that we target most common accidents possibly by site. I want to do something that will be of some benefit to us and not just a paperwork exercise. Is there any simple software on the market or has anyone designed their own system. Ed Any advice be appreciated.
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Why don't you measure all accidents using the accident frequency rate calculator?
- All Accidents Frequency Rate
- Lost Time Accident Frequency Rate
You can then have a direct comparison to your companies accident frequency rate.
Just a suggestion?
You could also carry out an epidemiological study of injuries to help you prioritise.
Lastly, you could analyse your new data against over 3 day injuries i.e. calculate your new data into the old measurement of over 3 day injuries and do a cross comparison.
Again, all suggestions but difficult to give a definitive answer as it depends on what industry etc your working in.
Good luck!
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By more detail do you mean, classifying accidents by type ie
1) slip trip fall,
2) low height fall ( under 2m)
3) fall from height ( above 2m)
4) burn
5) cut / laceration
6) crushing etc
or
as above AFR, RIDDOR AFR, Lost time, near miss etc
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OP,
The data you analyse will be very company specific, dependant on the type of activities undertaken, management desire for data, culture etc.
There are myriad types of analysis and data and I'm sure someone will link a nice web-source :-) To give you a flavour here’s some analysis we conduct:
Monthly (+ trending YTD, current month vs month last year, current YTD vs last YTD):
- Total accidents
- Total major / reportable (you could sub categories into the various RIDDOR categories or company requirements)
- Total minor
- Total near miss
- Total accidents by category of hazard (you could also separate major / minor too)
- Accident Frequency for total / major only / minor only / specific hazard categories (the ones that are important to you)
- The above can be done for each site / entity within your business and benchmarked between them
- The above can be benchmarked against the HSE's publics accident data for your industry
There are a lot more options, but it’s about analyses what's important for your business, relevant to the risks you face / create!
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A proper analysis looks at types / causes (in a broad sense).
Analysing by injury is rather pointless beyond the simple RIDDOR numbers (which everyone uses).
Injury, whether severity or body part, is a chance outcome, and tells you nothing of the reasons for failure.
If there is no indication of the what & why, there is no guide for learning and improvement. This principle covers close calls too.
Chris42 suggests some broad categories. It will be for you (safety practitioner) to slot the incidents into the appropriate cause category - don't expect others to do this effectively.
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In addition to the above you can also collate data for things like:
First aid cases (FAC)
Restricted work day cases (RWC)
You coould also be collating non injurous incidents as well due to the potential that it could have had. Such things can include:
Dangerous occurences
Near misses
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Hi,
I would advise that you start with the end in mind. What are you looking for? A reduction in injuries, health issues, lost production (Not lost time), cost of accidents? Once you know what you want to achieve/influence then you can design the analysis from there, targetting number of incidents, trends, severity, lost time, etc.
Just a thought,
Jim
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Thanks Folks
Im looking to categorise them more by type and by site location.
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sadlass wrote:Analysing by injury is rather pointless beyond the simple RIDDOR numbers (which everyone uses).
Injury, whether severity or body part, is a chance outcome, and tells you nothing of the reasons for failure.
I'd disagree because:
- Injury is chance outcome but within set boundaries (you're not going to die from a manual handling injury, whereas you could from at height etc.). Tracking minor / major helps to understand the state of play within the company
- Inline with the accident triangle it's worth remaining aware of the amount of minors and majors to help apportion resource where needed etc.
- Lots of minors as appose to lots of majors is often caused by different root causes (e.g. lots of minors may well be a culture issue, lots of majors could suggest some serious process failings)
But then I would say the above because we track minor / major etc. :-D
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Take a look at the last three issues of SHP magazine (if you don't get it with a membership of IOSH, you can access the online version). There is a good set of three articles (one in each issue) dealing with lagging and leading indicators and how to analyse stats for best effect. These should get you started with some good thoughts (together with the various comments already received on this forum).
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