Sorry for being a bit thick; what do you mean by ‘projecting RIDDORS to the year’s end’?

I have never projected forward where we may be with a RIDDOR KPI. I guess the only reason would be to see if you were on target to the goal you set yourself ( say half way through the year) in order to get an idea if any new control measures have worked. I used to use a 12 month rolling number for this to show trend, but that was more general accidents than RIDDOR. I doubt very much that projecting the outcome for the end of the year will make people say we are down on our numbers after 6 months, so we can afford to take more chances with peoples wellbeing. I can't see how anyone would think you are encouraging them by doing this, seems a little ridiculous. IMHO Chris

The only reason I can see is for measuring failures against a pre-set target - and that will only have any value when large numbers are used. For SMEs who have nil or few reportable incidents I cannot see that there is any point. Insurance brokers may use projections when attempting to convince existing or potential new insurers of an improving standard of risk control but the more persuasive argument uses £££s.