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Audience This course is designed for anyone with responsibility for health and safety, including: - Health and safety managers and advisers
- HR directors and managers
- Facilities, maintenance and engineering managers
This thoroughly practical programme will help you maximise the benefits of the benchmarking process - improved systems, reduced injuries and associated costs, better and cheaper compliance and enhanced reputation (both internally and externally). Course Outline What is benchmarking? - Definition of benchmarking
- Aims and objectives of benchmarking
- Principal features of the benchmarking process
- Identifying best practice
- Identifying your current position and problem areas
- Selecting benchmarking partners: internally and externally
- Setting performance indicators
- Measuring and comparing performance
- Learning and acting on lessons learned
- Monitoring for continuing improvement
- The cost of benchmarking
Health and safety benchmarking - Definition
- Health and safety benchmarking policies
- Objectives
- The significance of well-defined performance indicators
- Involving senior management
Deciding what to benchmark - Selecting aspects of health and safety for benchmarking
- Premises
- Processes
- Work activities
- Work groups
- Specific examples of benchmarking topics
Getting started - Auditing the current health and safety management system
- Safety audits
- Organising reference sources
- Regulations, Approved Codes of Practice, HSE Guidance
- Industry health and safety standards
- Risk assessment information
- Internal and external injury and ill-health data
- Feedback from safety monitoring activities
- Safety audits
- Safety inspections
- Safety sampling exercises
- Example of a safety sampling document
- Establishing performance indicators
- The limitations of accident data as a sole measure of performance
Selecting partners - Internal and external partners
- Advantages and disadvantages of internal and external benchmarking
- Agreeing a benchmarking partnership
Working with your partner - Understanding your partner's operations
- Joint information requirements
- Exchanging information
- Agreeing performance indicators
- Corporate Health and Safety Performance Index (CHaSPI) (HSE)
- Agreeing individual responsibilities for the benchmarking partnership
- Procedures for site visits
Learning - and acting on lessons learned - Learning from others
- Devising an action plan
- Setting individual responsibilities and getting commitment
- Implementing your action plan
- Monitoring progress in the action plan
- Pointers to success
The benefits - Enhanced reputation
- Reduced injury and ill-health costs
- Improved health and safety management systems
Benchmarking technique - The final session involves a syndicate exercise in benchmarking techniques
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