I’m sure there is a simple answer to this one, but it’s been a bad Monday morning and I don’t seem to be making any progress at all! I have our AFR/AIR figures for the year but want to reference these figures to the construction industry averages. I’m sure these figures are in HSE’s pages and pages of statistics somewhere but I just can’t seem to find them. Any pointers from anyone out there would be much appreciated.

Those tables are handy - it's also worth noting they refer to 100,000 workers not 100,000 hours like some people use (it's not completely clear from the spreadsheet although if it *was* hours it would make for pretty scary reading!) Another one released recently was that within the construction industry companies experienced an average of 0.3 days lost annually to injury per worker. I like this one purely because we actually outperform it... If you measure by 100,000 hours it's quite hard to find up to date benchmarks although I did come across one from a few years back (within the last five I think) of 0.4 reportable accidents per 100,000 hours. I don't have first-hand access to it or knowledge of the sample group, though, so I don't use it myself. I've had more success benchmarking our own performance internally, both over time and between business units. There's less room for ignoring the measures when everyone understands how robustly they were made but like you I'm still always on the lookout for useful comparisons externally. Good luck.