Posted By Debbie Walker Graham, We, like you, use a measure of total accident rate that we can't compare with those nationally published by the HSE. We're a food manufacturing site with only approx 450 staff but work 24 - 7 at 3 sites. I've sent you separately the rates that we have "achieved" for ALL accidents per 100 000 hours worked over the past 4 years. At the moment for every 100 000 hours we have 16 accidents reported to us in the department. We are also comapring these numbers across different shifts at each site (as some work 12 hours and some work 8). I would be interested to know how are other people managing to compare their performance with other companies in their own industry and is there an easy source of these statistics other than the RIDDOR only from HSE? Debbie