• Brendon Ward
    24
    Hi all,

    Where do I get data on industry bench mark for lost-time-injury-frequency-rate in New Zealand?

    Brendon
  • Steve H
    308
    What industry Brendon?
  • Steve H
    308
    You could try joining the Business Leaders Health & Safety Forum, they produce a bench marking report based on their members, which include transport and warehousing

    https://www.forum.org.nz/assets/Uploads/Benchmarking/Benchmarking-2020-Snapshot.pdf[
  • Andrew
    405
    Shame. I thought we had moved on from such bogus navel gazing data.
  • Steve H
    308
    Hey Brendon,what about SafePlus if some similar businesses are a part of it you might get some benchmarks to see where you are at:
    How do you benchmark my organisation’s performance?
    Benchmark results are an indicator of how your organisation compares to other organisations that are broadly similar. Results are based on your organisation’s industry sector type, its number of employees (small (<20), medium (20-99) or large (100+)), and complexity (legal structure).

    You’ll only get a benchmark result with your performance information if there are at least 9 assessments for other organisations with the same sector type, size and complexity.
  • Robb
    57
    Shame. I thought we had moved on from such bogus navel gazing data.Andrew

    Andrew, sadly as the national transport agency has publically shamed themselves with an unachievable zero road toll aim...those in the transport industry have been forced to navel gaze
  • Chris Alderson
    30
    Hi Brendon - I would be interested in who is asking you for LTIFR information. As indicated above its something we are trying to strongly discourage, however boards and procurement in NZ hasn't generally made the transition away yet.
    There are plenty of good papers that show why it isn't a good safety measure including:

    Acsi. (2019). The Future of Health and Safety Reporting A Framework for Companies. (Page 16)
    https://acsi.org.au/research-reports/the-future-of-health-and-safety-reporting-a-framework-for-companies/
    Safe Work Australia. (2017). Measuring and Reporting on Work Health and Safety.
    https://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/resources-and-publications/reports/measuring-and-reporting-work-health-and-safety
    Hallowell, M., Quashne, M., Salas, R., Jones, M., MacLean, B., Quin, E. (2020). The Statistical Invalidity of TRIR as a Measure of Safety Performance.
    https://www.csra.colorado.edu/white-papers
    Bhandari, S., Hallowell, M., Scheve, C., Upton, J., Alruqi, W., Quaschne M., (2022). Assessing the Quality of Safety-Focused Leadership Engagements.
    https://www.csra.colorado.edu/white-papers
    Donald K, Martin, Black A.
    Preventing Serious Injuries and Fatalities (SIFs): A New Study Reveals Precursors and Paradigms


    Having said all this - I understand that sometimes you are put in a position where you just have to supply what you have been asked for. The best source of these kinds of stats used to be the ASX100 Citi reports. Happy to send through the most recent one to you - which I think was 2018 if that is useful. Just send me your email through
  • Garth
    6
    Ratios are a lie and can be manipulated.
    ***Apples for ++++apples comparison is even harder, as the hazards and controls are not equal across organizations. So no benchmark is possible or valid.

    Rather stop ratios and rather choose incident cases counts.
    Simply meet with your H&S committee and a normal worker...ask them to explain a Frequency rate????

    Now ask them to explain in a year we had: 0x Notifiable Incidents, 1x Lost Time Injuries (LTI), 5x Restricted Work Case, 5 Medical Treatment Injuries (MTI), 3x Minor Injuries (MI), 26x Near Miss Incident(NM).

    I doubt any workers who are supposed to be the drivers of the safety campaign will ever understand Oh this month our LTIF is 0.009 but our FYTD LTIF 0.02.

    Not many Executives can explain it either....
    Frequency rates were from the mines back in the day and based on large headcount and manhours.

    Use it loose it??
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