Health and Safety Executive Board Paper HSE/07/08

Meeting Date: 10 January 2007 FOI Status: Fully open

Type of Paper: Below the line Paper File Ref:
Exemptions: Post meeting

HEALTH AND SAFETY EXECUTIVE

The HSE Board

Monthly health & safety statistics report - January 2007

A Paper by Tim Beaumont

Advisor(s): Human Resources Service Centre

Cleared by Justin McCracken on 22 December 2006

Issue

1. Monthly report on health and safety statistics for the period to 21 December 2006, and
sickness absence management information for November 2006.

Timing

2. Routine - below the line statistics report for this meeting.

Argument

3. Progress against health and safety targets as agreed by the Board only. Annex 1
presents the monthly format for incident numbers & sickness absence management.
No action is requested from the Board other than to note progress

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Annex 1 Health & safety statistics and sickness absence data

a) Progress against accident & ill health targets

There have been 28 incidents/ill health reports for the period 17 November 2006 to 21
December 2006.

Category Actual Number Target for

number required to 2006/07
reported exceed
since target
1/4/06
All incidents causing injury 85 102 <141
All work related ill health 78 74 <103
DSE ill health 33 29 <41
Slips/trips causing injury 24 25 <36

One RIDDOR reportable incident occurred during the reporting period to one of HSEs
contractors. A Compucentre employee delivering a PC to an HSE office knocked
against a desk causing him to stumble and fall whilst still carrying the PC. He banged
his hand against the desk resulting in a broken bone in the hand. As such it counts as
a major injury.

b) Sickness absence management

Graph 1
Rolling 12 m onth ave rage w orking days lost due to Sick Abs ence - HSE and Directorate level
Novem be r 2006

10.00
9.00
8.00
7.00
6.00
5.00
4.00
3.00
2.00
1.00
0.00
RPD NSD FOD OPSD POLGRP HSE LAU HID CoSAS CD HSL LAO

Average Working days l ost per employee Target to be achieved by 2008 Histori cal Target

Commentary:
This graph illustrates a 12-month rolling total average working days lost per employee, at Directorate level.

Source data: e-HR November 2006

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 Graph 2

Average Working days lost in month - Per employee November 2006

1.00
0.80
0.60
0.40
0.20
0.00
RPD CoSAS PolGrp FOD HSE HSC NSD CD HSL HID LAO OPSD LAU

Days lost per employee Monthly target

Commentary:
This graph illustrates November actual in month performance for each Directorate and at HSE level.

Source data: e-HR November 2006

Graph 3

HSE Forward Trend Average working Days lost per employee November 2006

9.20

8.70

8.20

7.70

7.20

6.70

6.20
Feb 05

Feb 06

Feb 07
Dec 04

Dec 05
Aug 04

Dec 06
Aug 05

Aug 06
Apr 05

Apr 06

Apr 07
Jun 04

Jun 05

Jun 06
Oct 04

Oct 05

Oct 06

Yearly Average Linear (Yearly Average)

Commentary:
This graph indicates the HSE forward trend using the last 12 months data extracted from e-HR. The lowest scale of 6.2
indicates the HSE target of average working days lost per employee. The trend line has fallen slightly in November.

Source data: e-HR December 05 to November 06

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Graph 4

Comparison of Relative size of organisation in comparison to % ownership of days lost

November 2006

50.00%
40.00%
30.00%
20.00%
10.00%
0.00%
FOD RPD PolGrp HID HSL NSD CoSASD LAO CD OPSD HSC LAU

% of total absence relative s ize of Directorate

Commentary:
This graph illustrates the comparison between the relative sizes of the organisation against the percentage ownership of days
lost for November 2006.

Source data: e-HR November 06

Graph 5

Instances of Short vs Long Term Absences

180
163
160
140
120
100
80
60 48 44 48
40 29
17 20
20 13 10 6
0 0 0 1 0 3 0 4 0 5 0 2 4 2
0
LAU HSC OPSD CD LAO CoSASD NSD HSL HID PolGrp RPD FOD

Long term instances Short term instances

Commentary:
The definition of Long Term Absence is 20 days or more. This graph also captures all reported open-ended absences in
the category they would fall into as at the end of the Month.

Source data: e-HR November 2006

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Graph 6

Total Actual Salary cost of top 10 Reasons of Sickness Absence

November 2006

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40,000.00
35,000.00
30,000.00
25,000.00
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Commentary:
The calculation of cost for the organisation is direct salary costs only. They do not include allowances or the cost of
covering the absence.
Sickness Absence categories now correspond with the World Health Organisation definitions. There is still an increasing
trend in the Symptoms ill-defined category. HR Service Centre are undertaking a review of illnesses captured within this
category.

Source data: e-HR November 2006

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