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Hi
Does anybody have any experience of safety reporting and benchmarking within a global group, using accident classifications that make sense to everybody? I'm working with an existing company scheme based on HSE accident descriptions, but I'm not sure that this is reasonable when we have sites in China, Indonesia, Africa etc. My feeling is that the categories need amending, rather than trying to impose a UK-centric view. I have googled but can't find much on how other countries do it. Is HSE's model the gold standard?
thanks
Gavin
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Hi Gavin,
Obviously the classifications need to reflect to what info your company wants to get out of it?
Might be a good to try and find a contact in the major oil industry, BP, Shell etc who will have the sort of criteria you are looking for?
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As the HSE (in essence, the Government of the day, via the LY Report) has seen fit to do away with the gathering of >3day incident reporting, anyone in the UK is going to find comparative measurement with EU or WHO standards somewhat difficult.
HSE's model would (in a Black Adder context) appear to be closer to Lord Percy's "nugget of purest green"
as opposed to gold or any precious metal standard. UK is now out of step with everyone else.
I suppose you could ask the HSE how they're getting on with their proposals for "synthetic estimates" they mentioned in the RIDDOR "consultation".
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It is my understanding that many global organisations use the USA OSHA Recording Standard as a benchmark as it is much more stringent than current RIDDOR and also it has more prescriptive criteria.
However, your question pertains to "classification" and not from a reporting threshold aspect. From a "classification" perspective, although not a gold standard, it does have aspects that are useful, such as part of body injured, etc. Ultimately, it is what your organisation deems as useful data that is important. This can vary between organisations as their activities may vary and depending upon the level of details and data analysis you want to undertake.
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Yes, I'm really dealing with classifications in the sense of, for example, falls, struck by objects, electric shock, hit by vehicle etc. I have now located the OSHA categories and also a set produced by the International Labour Organisation, which is perhaps more useful as it can be seen to be independent of any national viewpoint. People can be quite protective of the way they do things in their country, so the neutral organisation is quite attractive!
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