Posted By ian milne
Sorry but your question was to open. Could you be more specific for us i.e. is it companies and fines, leading/lagging indicators etc, ranking by size of company in dustries, size of industry etc..

Posted By Merv Newman
isaiah,

the most common ranking system (though there is always some discussion on its value and relevance) is on injury frequencies.

when comparing one situation with another you have to bear in mind the industry background. This means that you can compare one building company with another, but not with an office environment.

Some trades expose employees to higher levels and frequencies of risk than others. These can be controlled and managed but not all companies have been yet able to do that.

The European average of lost time injuries is about 30 per million hours of exposure. (6 per 200 000 hours (OSHA measure))

An averagely good company will be at about 15. When they take H&S really seriously and work on it then, over a few years, they can get down to 1 or 2 per million. It takes much longer to build a zero LTI culture but it can be done.

Merv

Posted By Andy Goodacre
In the offshore oil and gas industry in the UK there is a non profit organisation called STEP CHANGE which produces some very good freely available documentation on best practice within the industry. One such example is on leading and lagging indicators.

for further information go to:

http://stepchangeinsafety.net and type "leading and lagging indicators" into the search.

You'll be able to download a pdf document for free, which should provide some pointers. However bear in mind that it is written with the offshore oil and gas industry in mind so you should try to pick what is relevent to the nature and structure of the work that your industry is involved in.

This is an example of industry trying to identify and share best practice and often works in conjunction with input from the HSE.

I hope this helps to point you in the right direction