Benchmarks for Establishing and Measuring Successful Health & Safety Functions

Employee health, safety and wellness play a crucial role in ensuring a high-performing workplace. Health & Safety teams seek leading performance indicators and employee buy-in to prevent injuries, but at the same time executives struggle to establish a safety culture that builds strong employee awareness of the importance and benefits of the safety function.

This 23-slide presentation captures benchmark data of 53 Health & Safety organizations across several industries in the following areas:

• Resources and responsibilities for safety
• Trust and buy-in for the safety function
• Measuring performance of health and safety programs
• Performance of the safety function
• Leading and lagging indicators for work place safety

• Tactics for recruiting safety leaders
• Tools to improve Health & Safety accountability in the workforce
• Resolving issues and building trust among employees
• Communicating the benefits of health and wellness programs
• ROI of workplace health & wellness
• Methods to record H&S incident investigations
• Severity of injury metrics
• Methods to perform daily task and job category safety analyses

• Across the benchmark class, H&S organizations empower their front-line staff to proactively prevent safety incidents. One company facilitates an online close-call program where employees can submit H&S best practices and ultimately are entered for a prize drawing. Another identifies informal walk-arounds and discussions as effective in encouraging this type of behavior in workers.
• For 47% of the benchmark class, the implementation and promotion of health and wellness programs led to a reduction of minor physical injuries at the workplace. Some companies achieved more than a 50% reduction rate in one year or less.

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