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Hi
I've been asked by the MD to benchmark our yearly accident stats against similar industries to ourselves, we are SME (manufacture of electronic communication systems but will also attend construction sites to install our equipment). Does anyone know where I can find meaningful data to present this information? I've already provided him with RIDDOR stats for 2014/15 but he's looking for something more detailed.
Any help would be much appreciated.
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You will find you are wasting your time.
But I guess you have to show willing
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Are you a member of any trade associations that may have the same data? However (I'm not quite as sceptical as Walker- or maybe I am?) the info that they may have would only be what the other members are willing to input - which may not be accurate?
We input our data into one such organisation - but I know that lots and lots of the other members do not which sort of defeats the object.
More useful maybe to look at your own historical records?
Sorry not much help.
Stuart
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I agree with Stuie, where I previously worked we did this via a trade association. We did get something from it when we noted others ( who were nameless) must have been doing better than us.
We asked via the association if those with better stats would let us visit, which they did. It was interesting for both company's I think. We actually had more controls in place, but they had lower numbers.
The difference between the company approaches, was they had had a fatality of a long serving employee known to everyone (which focuses the mind) and they did not pay sick pay for the first 3 days. So things are not always as they seem just from the stats.
Chris
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I agree with Walker - such an exercise is a waste of time, whether or not you can get hold of benchmarking partners or not. However, execs love numbers ('metrics') and you will have a job on your hands to offer any other valid set of metrics to compensate. I feel your pain.
What can you learn from comparing - mines bigger than yours? So what. You will find there are more variables than you ever thought possible, so in the end you are, as they say, comparing apples with bananas.
A clear definition of 'accident' may be needed - in some organisations forms are filled in for every tiny pinprick, schools report non-work related stuff all the time, and in others, only RIDDOR are captured. Wild variation in numbers just there.
Unless you rate your incidents, and sift 'scary' from 'inconsequential', learning point or nothing to be done, the outcome will be simply comparing the number of forms, with a bit of random luck thrown in. And then if you rate yours, other benchmarkers may not, so back to square one.
For this reason, many only benchmark RIDDORs, as there is some consistency of approach - however, these are only outcome (injury) based, and so often just an indicator of chance. Bruise - no problem, fracture - it's a RIDDOR. Same situation, same risk.
Do I have an answer? No. Yet I did a presentation based on benchmarking at an IOSH Symposium in the 90's. How I look back and laugh now.
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Nelly, as previously stated trade associations are your best bet as they will be the same or similar industries and that is what you want to compare against.
However, using actual accident numbers may not give you a true reflection. Shift patterns, weekend working, overtime, short time working and employee numbers may all be part of the mix. For this reason some companies and trade associations calculate accident frequency rates based on hours worked, this allows a more like for like comparison (if reporting structures are the same).
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The only benchmarking for accident stats I do is against our own figures from previous years. Even then, you can find lots of variables that might have had an effect. If you don't do that already, would that satisfy the desire for metrics?
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HSE has stats broken down by industry, as long as you use a formula say per 1000 employees it is a good benchmark indicator against industry.
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