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Has anyone had any experience of putting together a heat map?
I would welcome your thoughts/recommendations
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What is it your are trying to achieve?
You will need a latitude and longitude for each event that you are measuring for a start. Is this available? You then need to use GIS software to create the heatmap. ArcGIS does this out the box but can be costly. QGIS is open source but requires addons to achieve this functionality.
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I did the same as Ray for the same reason that I'd never heard of such a thing, particulrly from an OHS perpective.
Having looked up the same website and an Aussie one, the title seems a complete misnomer-Heat ? What?
Looks just like a matrix style risk assessment in colour -wow.
I don't think I'd bother with it.
Mind you, John, there doesn't appear to be a need for long/lat info so maybe we are at cross purposes here
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Mike
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Originally Posted by: MikeKelly 
Mind you, John, there doesn't appear to be a need for long/lat info so maybe we are at cross purposes here
Regards
Mike
Assuming the like above does detail the type of heat map the OP is looking for?. I'd personally guess not? In GIS analytics a heat map is used to graphically display incidence rate around a particular location.
This could be of use in a multi site organisation or where an organisation has mobile workers and would offer another way to look at i.e. accident data, perhaps revealing a root cause that may have gone missed using other methods. I've personally use this in the past.
Clearly we need further info from the OP but if my thoughts are right you'll definitely need location data.
More on heat maps here:
https://www.gislounge.com/heat-maps-in-gis/
Example here:
Edited by user 12 February 2017 23:19:34(UTC)
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You are asking something or want to tell something. I think it is pretty much confusing.
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Originally Posted by: hannahbilson You are asking something or want to tell something. I think it is pretty much confusing.
? There is most defnitely a question and a statement looking for information there. Lets be friendly towards our visitors! :) Edited by user 13 February 2017 09:08:45(UTC)
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Hi, by heat map do you mean recording incidents e.g. accidents, near misses by location. If so, a simple way of doing it is to get a map of the site and put coloured stickers where incidents, near misses happen. The more stickers in one place would then indicate visually where they most commonly occur.
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Or you could map risk (potential accidents of course) across a business, either geographically or organisationally. Not sure what it adds.
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Here's an example of an OHS heat map from the OZ website I referred to above, I can't say it helps me but the OP might find it useful
https://www.worksafe.qld.gov.au/...heat-maps-of.../industry-heat-map
Worksafe being the State OHS authority
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Mike
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Hi all,
Sorry I don't think I explained myself well at all...this is what happens when I try and think about work on a Saturday morning.
Our exec have asked us to create a SHE heat map, identifying areas of risk. I think they want a visual risk register that they can quickly reference key areas of risk. They have used them in other areas of the business to map areas of business risk e.g. Financial.
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Done an informal heat map using organisational / departmental divisions showing a specific risk, for example, occupational road risk 'locations', although using coloured ink / post-its rather than spending hours creating an electronic and board-room friendly version. To map all risk in one could be tricky, as there can be pockets of high risk within a larger, more benign, department. Depends on how diverse and complicated your company is. However, give it a go. Maybe you could also get ideas from the other business area heat maps? Stepping away from the heat map as such, I use an A4 sheet to present an organisations whole 'risk profile' in tabulated form, with high potential to minimal (according to me - I then take it to others to moderate). I use legislation (which is hazard-based) plus a few extra hazards such as stress, ORR, aggression (for which no specific legislation exists). It's a blunt tool, but easy to understand. Probably 20 - 35 max. Risk profiling is referred to by the HSE but they give no detail. I have also used such a table for evaluating H&S 'effort' against risk (or need). This shows if prioritising DSE eyesight tests over managing lifting equipment for example. Effective allocation of resources is an area execs like to see.
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Aud, this is exactly what I am trying to achieve.
Just struggling with getting started, and how to divide it up, whether to split it into business areas, e.g. Finance, HR, responsive repairs, contact centre, etc. or by having the arrangements section of our policy as topics.
Do you know if there is any material available anywhere? I can't seem to find anything for me to have a look at!
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As an aside, I use a Risk Register with a traffic light system which clearly identifies the risks, tasks, teams involved, recommended corrective measures and timescales. I can see a potential use for a heat map as a metaphor, but unless it contained a lot of supplementary information I don't see it being all that useful compared to a Risk Register.
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