Rates organisational injury

It Is always tempting to compare the results from the organisation with national or Industry data, but the relative sizes of the samples must be remembered when doing so. Also, Industry frequency and severity rates, where published, are often based on guesswork on the hours worked, and can take no account of under-reporting of Injuries to the authorities. Generally, the best comparison to use Is a previous time period within the same business or benchmarking partners. 

Figure 16.1 presents an overview of different SHE performance indicators. This overview is based on the framework for accident analysis in Chapter 6. Loss-based SHE performance indicators will be our starting point. Among these we find the most commonly used indicator, the lost-time injury frequency rate. We proceed by reviewing process-based indicators, similar to those developed in the fertiliser-plant case in Chapter 4. Finally, we will look into indicators relating to causal factors, i.e. indicators based on information about the organisation and SHE management system. 

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