Posted By James M
Mark,


accident stats, hours worked, type of work, new equipment, high risk activities, client and customer feedback,training undertaken,future training, HSE visits. A few to get the ball rolling.


Jim

Posted By Alan Woodage
Mark, don't forget to keep the board up to date with legislation changes and new legal duties as this is going to keep them focussed on what they are responsible for and as a bonus what you are doing to keep them safe. I find this helps especially when trying to secure funding for training and procurement. Also keep it short and to the point as most people switch off if you start quoting reams of KPI's and figures as this doesn't necessarily mean alot to them if they are not aware of what this actually means in relation to the bottom line of the business and or impacts to the viability of the business. Especially if you are presenting a written report keep it to a page summary as anymore than this at board level and they'll never read it. I had a director who would not accept any more than a page on anything and this made me realise that it's the way to go keep it concise and to the point and tell me the facts, any thing else is just padding and waffle and therefore a waste of company resources.
Hope this helps.

Posted By David A Jones
Agree that visual reporting is good - I use a mix of words and traffic light coding to draw their attention tot he things they rely do need to concentrate on at this time whilst keeping the other issues still firmly on the agenda.

Don't go into too much detail unless really necessary, directors tgend to operate at a more strategic level and leave the detail to the management structure (obviously depends on the size/type of company and the individuals concerned)

I report at strategic level on 1) the state of the health and safety management system (incl. polices, procedures, competent support, etc), 2) accident data (3 month moving average accident incidence rate, trends, signifiicant incidents, claims, etc), 3) risk assessment, 4) Consultation, 5) Training, etc.