A review of the Health and Safety Executive's (HSE's) voluntary Corporate Health and Safety Performance Indicator (CHaSPI), launched in July 2005, has been undertaken by Greenstreet Berman Ltd/Enable Infomatrix Ltd. and a report has been published outlining recommendations for further improvements to the web-based tool.
The CHaSPI measuring tool, which uses qualitative and quantitative data, was introduced to assist large organisations with over 250 employees to measure effectiveness of their internal controls over their own health and safety performance.
The aim of the tool was to encourage and help organisations improve their health and safety performance beyond the legal minimum.
Some of the recommendations for further improvements are as follows:
- Alternative Injury Rate schemes, with a number of different calculations depending on whether a user selects between UK and US injury reporting standard.
- A low-risk organisation version to determine if an alternative question set would have more validity and predictive power for these companies.
- Merging the occupational health and the health and safety management indicators together.
The background and CHaPSI tool can be viewed from the HSE Website by clicking the following:
How does your business measure up?
Article by Alexandra Johnston
