Posted By lucy walker
I desperately need a benchmark figure for the construction industrys AFR.

At the moment I am comparing our AFR to other construction companies, but I am being hassled to get a benchmark figure for the construction industry as a whole.

I know the HSE don’t do a benchmark for AFR - does anyone know where I might be able to find one though.

Thanks

Lucy

Posted By lucy walker
I will check them out and see if they can help - thanks

Lucy

Posted By peter gotch
Hi Lucy.

The stats on the HSE website [inclusive of AFRs] reflect underreporting or RIDDOR events, estimated as some 50% for the employed and over 95% for the self-employed, so if you wanted an industry wide comparator you should probably take account of underreporting.

However, not sure why your company wants to benchmark against the industry as a whole.

We know that the REPORTED accident rates on small projects are much higher than on big projects - reasonable to assume that if it were not for underreporting that the divergence would be even greater.

Surely, if you want to set "SMART" targets, you should be benchmarking against the better end of the industry, e.g. using MCG statistics as a starting point.

See

http://www.mcg.org.uk/pd...%200607%20PR%20final.pdf

Regards, Peter

Posted By Dominic Howkins
Have you tried http://chaspi.info-exchange.com

Def worth a look if you havent