Posted By Martin Taylor Can somebody point me in the direction of some useful KPIs for measuring H and S standards. I am having difficulty in getting engagement in safety matters from my companies senior managers and am beginning to realise that they work very well with KPIs. I have explained that use of reactive measures - accidents , incidents and RIDDORS is not the best way to understand how well sections are doing in managing health and safety but find that other KPIs such as number of safety inspections carried out - number of risk assessments completed are all too easy to fudge - loads of rubbish inspections and assessments = loads of brownie points. Other measures I have tried in the past - average time to complete an investigation, number of issues raised during audits, 'score' of audit are similary 'vague'. I am sure that these type of things would satisfy managers but wouldn't give them a real appreciation of how well safety is bieng managed. I am certain that there are people out there using fantastic KPIs - real added value and easy to compute I hope so anyway..... Martin

Posted By Ian G Hutchings Martin People often seem to get confused between lagging, current and leading indicators of performance. I believe that you need to use all three. Firstly you need to identify what areas of performance need to be improved and what steps lead to the improvement. Once you have in place certain interventions you should then measure the actual performance against those steps. This may be less tangible measures of leadership engagement, or % level of close-out against certain agreed actions. If you have a H&S improvement plan with certain managers down as owners of actions, they can report on progress against completion of each action. This works well when area/business or dept managers have to personally report to the MD/CEO on performance each month or quarter. Please drop me an email if you want some relevant examples. Ian

Posted By Martin Taylor thanks everybody - I'll be studying the IOSH document today If anybody has examples of different KPIs that they use for reporting to management - ideally something that can be measured and reported on a monthly basis - I will be most interested thanks Martin