YTD I have had one reportable to RIDDOR

100 employees although this does take into account sub-contractors

We work in the construction sector
1 RIDDOR in last three years - or one this year

If you want a mature H&S organisation you should bench mark its against other similar businesses.

Food Industry average is much less than 5.

These are the comparison stats you asked for http://www.hse.gov.uk/food/202.htm

Steve

I have never been hugely in favour of trying to use accident and/or RIDDOR stats as a PI or KPI

You are likely to be comparing apples with pears (Chris alludes to this).
Low reporting rates aren't necessarily an indicator of good management of risk
Certain 'zero accident' schemes discourage the reporting of accidents and incidents and massaging of the same

I suggest use with caution!

I share the concerns of other posters on this issue. Why are you comparing your performance with others? The performance of your company is the only one that matters to you and you should aim for zero accidents even though that may be a utopian target. Why not simply look at your own accident rate and try and improve or maintain it if it is already zero. I think this comparison with other companies is simply a means of saying OK we did cause injuries but don't worry we are better than some others and that OK then. The simple matter is every company should try and get accidents and near misses to as low a level as possible both because of the law and the moral objective.

Just to make it clear; I am not seeking to compare my organisation with others. A consultant quoted me a figure of an expected 5 RIDDORs per 100 employees per year and I thought that was a bit high - much higher than we have here so I was asking what others experienced.

Thanks for all of your comments and have a good weekend

How can RIDDOR be used in stats for anything. I possibility don't disagree if it is in manufacturing / processing factory environments.


In Construction we supply Operated Plant.

If one of our Operators slips/trips/falls through bad housekeeping on site and it becomes a reportable we have to report it. WHY?

If it is a reportable incident then the site has to report it.

As this is the case then in my opinion the stats in our industry are meaningless.

Not off on a tangent but as late as yesterday we had an incident on a CPA hire and I was told we had to report it as the PC's company procedures would not allow them to report it as it would look bad for them.

I said no read the regs.

Today I had the Regional Director for the PC telling us we had to report it and ensure our report said we were at fault. I said no again.

Their site their MS their RA's their complete control of our personnel & equipment THEIR incident.

And why all about stats. Sadly some companies will fold and agree to this we don,t.

Not a thread hi-jack it is just an example of how stats can and will in these type of circumstances be mis-leading.

By the way I investigated the Incident ,gave them a report on the incident highlighting the problem areas. Now awaiting a call from the next one up from a Regional Director.

Chris, I think your right in relation to health. I think another problem with health under riddor is that many cases are only diagnosed once a person has left their employment or retired so it doesn't reflect well with the real situation in the workplace.