Guide to Measuring Hse Performance

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A GUIDE TO MEASURING
HEALTH & SAFETY
PERFORMANCE
December 2001
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MEASURING HEALTH AND SAFETY PERFORMANCE
Contents
Introduction
How will this guidance help me?
What the guidance is not
Why is guidance necessary?
Why measure performance?
Introduction
Providing information
Answering questions
Decision making
Addressing different information needs
What to measure
Introduction
Measuring the hazard burden
Measuring the health and safety management system
Measuring failure - reactive monitoring
Measuring the health and safety culture
Planning and implementing - a more detailed look
When to measure performance
Who should measure performance
How to measure performance
Introduction
Deriving performance measures
References
Further information
Feedback
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INTRODUCTION
This new document developed by HSE provides practical guidance for people who understand the principles of health and safety management and wish to improve the measurement of health and safety performance in their organisations. We would welcome feedback on the ideas presented here.
The guidance on measuring health and safety performance is organised under these main headings:
· Why measure?
· What to measure.
· When to measure.
· Who should measure.
· How to measure.
The guidance expands on the Measuring performance chapter in HSE 's publication HSG65 Successful health and safety management,1 which provides guidance on managing health and safety. The chapter Planning and implementing from HSG 65 has been included with this guidance to provide background information which will put it into context. You may find it useful to read this chapter first.
How will this guidance help me?
Measuring health and safety is not easy and there are no simple answers. But this guidance provides:
· HSE’s emerging views on this dynamic and important subject;
· information to help you improve your organisation’s health and safety performance measurement; and
· an