The collation and interpretation of accident statistics

Data can illustrate trends in workplace accidents/incidents and build a business case for action. But what statistical principles should health and safety managers apply and how should they use them?

Covering

• How best to collate information

• Ways of presenting data

• Commonly used ratios including accident incidence rate, accident frequency rate and accident severity rate and worked examples

• Creating health and safety management metrics and developing performance indicators

• Establishing  patterns of performance over time versus measuring simple accident figures.

• Rates across various departments, sites or sectors

• Comparing like with like and benchmarking

• Limitations of interpreting results

• Implement and develop a continual improvement plan.

The presentation will be of interest to both expert or novice as well all strive for improvement.