Hi All

I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction...I have been asked to produce data on lost time injury frequency rate to give my employer an indication of how we are performing. (i.e. lost time injury x 1000000/total hrs)

My challenge is that i am not sure any benchmarking data exisits - any ideas?!

I know we have HSE RIDDOR rate which i can look at by my employer is very specific we look at LTIFR and I can not find any data to tell them if we are doing well or not! 

Thanks in advace. 

Originally Posted by: Kate

Depending on the sector you are in, there may be an industry benchmarking scheme that you can join.  These are often run by trade associations.  You get access to the data of other employers in your sector (or more exactly, to the overall averages across the employers) in return for sharing your own figures which in turn are fed in to the average which is reported to the participants.

I won't go here into why such benchmarking is rarely meaningful or all the pitfalls, but I predict that someone or other will :-)

Thanks Kate - really helpful. I'm in healthcare.

I've been pretty vocal about why i do not think we should focus on this but the powers that be want it! 

The Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR) is calculated as:

LTIFR=Number of Lost Time Injuries×1,000,000Total Hours Worked\text{LTIFR} = \frac{\text{Number of Lost Time Injuries} \times 1,000,000}{\text{Total Hours Worked}}LTIFR=Total Hours WorkedNumber of Lost Time Injuries×1,000,000​

Benchmarking data for LTIFR varies by industry. For example, the global steel industry reports around 0.65, the offshore oil and gas sector about 0.79, and the port industry approximately 5.4 lost-time injuries per million hours worked.

Exact benchmarks may not exist for every organisation, as definitions and risk levels differ. Therefore, it is best to track your own LTIFR trend over time and compare it against available industry data to assess performance and set realistic improvement targets.