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Construction AFR 2020/21 - Average Accident Frequency Rate within the UK construction industry
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leerob  
#1 Posted : 24 February 2022 16:02:01(UTC)
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leerob

Hello, I am trying to establish the national average for the Accident Frequency Rate (AFR) within the construction industry in the UK, so I can benchmark against our company. I have tried to locate via various websites but I am still struggling.

The HSE website does not give me a figure or I may be blinded by the amount of information and it is under my nose.

Please Help!
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peter gotch  
#2 Posted : 24 February 2022 16:17:01(UTC)
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peter gotch

Hi leerob

The nearest you will get on the HSE website is "RIDIND"

www.hse.gov.uk%2Fstatistics%2Ftables%2Fridind.xlsx&wdOrigin=BROWSELINK">ridind.xlsx (live.com)

But this counts by the number of people whereas AFR usually counts by hours.

...and in terms of constuction you are very unlikely to want to benchmark against the entirety of what is catalogued as "construction".

Probably better looking for what organisations comparable to yours may have collaborated to calculate.

But, you would still need to look out for traps e.g. the difference between big companies that sub out almost all the higher risk tasks and choose not to keep records of supply chain accidents and those who want to know what is happening across all their projects whoever is the actual employer/self-employer.

P
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davecharnock  
#3 Posted : 24 February 2022 16:23:29(UTC)
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davecharnock

Does this help? Construction statistics in Great Britain, 2021 (hse.gov.uk)

I think HSE publishes incidence rates rather than  frequency rates due to the complexities of calculating the number of hours worked on average, but you can do the conversion if you need to. Injury Frequency Rates (hse.gov.uk)

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