The potential savings would depend upon the level at which the organisation has implemented its health & safety management system and there is likely to be an initial cost increase to "resource it" . It is also speculative as to what extent one may save in potential enforcement action costs.

Me, I agree with Jay. My main customer has had 18001 and BSC 5 Star for two years and it's difficult to attribute any 'saving' in money terms. No changes in insurance premiums. No improvements in production efficiences attributable to new safer procedures or machines. Costs of accidents may be reducing every year but the numbers aren't real and are based on an HSE 'model' calculation. Loss of production due to 'incidents' occurs/varies every year and can't measure savings on that. Ask me what 18001 now COSTS the company every year and I could probably put a figure to that based on increased time spent on training, preparing and delivering toolbox talks, time of supervisors or operators writing new SOP's that we didn't have. Cost of management time having more frequent safety meetings, more review meetings, more internal audits, cost of the formal audits, costs of more department inspections, more training reviews, more RAMS reviews, more COSHH reviews, more preventative maintenance costs...... And they now employ me two days a week instead one day..... :o) JohnW

JohnW, are you their consultant or employee? If consultant, have you consulted with your client on whether to keep paying to maintain the badges? If employee it is plainly in your interest to keep the work flowing.

Hi all, thanks for responding, it's much appreciated. Probably best to do a brief overview without any promises of noticeable cost savings. ta again