hs16 01 Measuring and Monitoring Hs Performance Procedure PDF
hs16 01 Measuring and Monitoring Hs Performance Procedure PDF
hs16 01 Measuring and Monitoring Hs Performance Procedure PDF
December 2016
Health and Safety-Procedure-HS16-01 Measuring & Monitoring Health & Safety Performance
Contents
1 Background and Purpose .............................................................................................................................. 3
2 Scope .............................................................................................................................................................. 3
3 Procedure........................................................................................................................................................ 3
OPTION 1: Exposure hours at locations for which there is a time and attendance system .. 10
OPTION 2: Using SAP HR Master Data for salaried exposed hours .................................... 11
OPTION 3: Exposure hours for divisions not using SAP HR data or a Time and Attendance
system. ........................................................................................................................ 11
4 Responsibilities ............................................................................................................................................ 15
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1 Background and Purpose
The purpose of this procedure is to outline the process for Health and Safety (H&S) performance
management, reporting and review of incidents and to ensure consistent processes and definitions
are applied.
2 Scope
This procedure applies to all Auckland Transport (AT) and suppliers who undertake operational
activities on behalf of AT.
3 Procedure
Performance Reporting
AT will regularly monitor its H&S performance to ensure it is on track to meet both its H&S Policy
expectations and its long term strategy for H&S. Performance management, reporting and review is
also important to ensure annual H&S plans are being delivered against.
To monitor its performance AT will, collect data and use it to inform all levels of the business on
progress. To this end AT has nominated a suite of indicators that will be used for this reporting.
These measures will be a mixture of lead and lag indicators and are chosen to provide indications of
either improvement or deteriorating performance, or track inputs into safety programmes, or to
provide an analysis of safety performance.
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The standard AT used performance indicators are as follows:
Medical Treatment
First Aid
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All incidents that occur at an AT workplace or during AT work activities must be reported. Incidents
are classified under procedure H&S13-01 Incident Management and these classifications ensure the
capturing of information necessary to be able to deliver the measures described above.
Other measures that may be used to measure and monitor are as follows:
Formal risk assessments completed;
Active review of hazard register (currency and efficacy);
Active participation in H&S discussions and toolbox meetings;
Number of toolbox meetings completed;
Employee H&S inductions and refreshers completed;
Number of near miss, hazard reports and unsafe act reports lodged and investigated; and
Active H&S training completed to the level of competence required to deliver AT H&S system
requirements.
Reporting Database
AT will use a system for capturing its H&S incidents and all associated key information required to
measure and monitor its performance. The system currently used is 'Synergi' and for the purposes of
this Procedure the term reporting database will refer to Synergi.
AT wants to ensure that there are no duplicate or multiple systems for recording and reporting H&S
events. To this end, all information used for monitoring and measuring H&S performance will be
recorded in the reporting database and extracted for the purposes of reporting.
For more specific definitions and examples of suppliers please refer to the definitions.
Peripheral service suppliers and visitors are not considered to be suppliers. Any incidents
involving these groups are reportable. If investigations find that AT is clearly at fault, the
incident will be recordable. Examples of peripheral service suppliers are: Technical service e.g.
Telecom, Telstra service technician or photo copier repair person.
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In the rare instances where a work attribution cannot be found and the incident has been deemed as
non-work, a decision may be made to remove the event from the reporting database. This decision is
made by the Group Manager – H&S, and the removal of the event and the reason documented and
retained for audit purposes.
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The table below describes situations not considered work related:
Type Description
Attendance on At the time of the injury or illness, the worker was present in the work environment
Works Site as a member of the general public rather than as a worker.
The injury or illness involves signs or symptoms that surface at work but result
Outside Work
solely from a non-work-related incident or exposure that occurs outside the work
Exposure
environment.
Wellness The injury or illness results solely from voluntary participation in a wellness program
Programmes or in flu shot or exercise class.
The injury or illness is solely the result of an employee eating, drinking, or preparing
food or drink for personal consumption (whether bought on the employer's
premises or brought in). For example, if the employee is injured by choking on a
Related to Food sandwich while in the employer's establishment, the case would not be considered
Consumption work-related.
Note: If the employee is made ill by ingesting food contaminated by workplace
contaminants (such as lead), or gets food poisoning from food supplied by the
employer, the case would be considered work-related.
The injury or illness is solely the result of an employee doing personal tasks
Personal Tasks (unrelated to their employment) at the establishment outside of the employee's
assigned working hours.
Personal The injury or illness is solely the result of personal grooming, self-medication for a
Grooming non-work-related condition, or is intentionally self-inflicted.
The illness is the common cold or flu (Note: contagious diseases such as
Common Illnesses tuberculosis, brucellosis, hepatitis A, or plague are considered work-related if the
employee is infected at work).
The illness is a mental illness. Mental illness will not be considered work-related
unless the employee voluntarily provides the employer with an opinion from a
Mental Illness physician or other licensed health care professional with appropriate training and
experience (psychiatrist, psychologist, psychiatric nurse practitioner, etc.) stating
that the employee has a mental illness that is work-related.
Table 2. Work v Non-Work Related Injuries
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An employee checked into a hotel or motel for one or more days. When a travelling employee
checks into a hotel, motel, or into another temporary residence, he or she establishes a “home
away from home.” You must evaluate the employee's activities after he or she checks into the
hotel, motel, or other temporary residence for their work-relatedness in the same manner as
you evaluate the activities of a non-travelling employee. When the employee checks into the
temporary residence, he or she is considered to have left the work environment. When the
employee begins work each day, he or she re-enters the work environment; or
The employee took a detour for personal reasons.
Workplace
The workplace is any premises where AT work is performed or is customarily performed, and includes
any place where a worker goes or is likely to be while at work. Premises include land, buildings or
part thereof, structures (either permanent or temporary), vehicles, trains or vessels.
When working from home, the work environment is limited to situations where:
Our people are “assigned” work at home rather than the normal office; and
Work is being done during normal working hours and in a space specifically dedicated as a
work area.
Journey Incident
Where our people are travelling between work locations during normal work hours, the activity of
travelling is classified as being in the course of work. Any incidents that occur during these journeys
are recordable. A journey incident may also include travel to and from work, if AT causal factors have
reasonably been seen as contributing to the cause of the incident. These incidents are required to be
reported, but may not be recordable for statistical reporting purposes. These should be referred to
the Group Manager – H&S for determination.
Reoccurrence
Reoccurrence is the aggravation of a previous injury. If a reoccurrence occurs within 12 months and
there was no clear work attribution, it shall not be recorded as a new TRI. However, if there is a clear
work attribution, the TRI must be treated as a new TRI.
If the reoccurrence occurs outside the 12-month timeframe, then the TRI must be treated as a new
TRI. Hours lost are recordable in the month that the time was lost and is not backdated to the initial
injury date.
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The table below shows the types of injury that are recordable and/reportable, and the applicable time
lost:
Lost work hours are not calculated in situations where the person does not attend work (on either their
normal job or restricted work) for reasons unrelated to the injury. For example:
Refusal to attend work where a medical certificate has been issued and alternative duties have
been agreed to by a registered medial practitioner;
Attendance for medical investigations or doctor’s appointments;
Periods of observation in hospital (where no other treatment is given or diagnosis made which
would otherwise lead to classification and the person concerned has not been admitted);
Where prolonged travel time to and from work with attendant specific transportation
requirements render attendance at work on restricted work activities impractical;
Strike or work stoppage;
Pre-arranged leave, leisure days or rostered days off;
Location closure (e.g. Christmas location closure);
Public holidays (where the person was not already rostered for work); or
A person was certified unfit for work for precautionary or related reasons.
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Responsibility for Reporting
The responsibility and accountability for on time and accurate reporting resides with the nominated
Manager, and Contract Managers are expected to ensure suppliers required to report are completing
this in a timely and accurate manner.
The responsible Manager may delegate reporting to others, however they are ultimately responsible
for ensuring our people understand their requirements as stated in this procedure.
Due Dates
The supplier reporting is required to be submitted by the fifth working day of every month. The
information contained with the reporting database is used by the Group Manager –H&S to prepare
management and board reporting.
If a supplier does not meet the deadline, and prior approval by the Group Manager – H&S has not
been obtained, the previous month’s data will be utilised for that month’s report and any changes will
need to be completed in the following month as per the policy for retrospective data changes.
OPTION 1: Exposure hours at locations for which there is a time and attendance
system
Where a location has a time and attendance system in place, the exposure hours should be derived
from this system.
The relevant leave and sickness absences must be obtained from payroll systems or other
records and are not included in the total exposure hours.
Overtime and training hours obtained are included in the total exposure Hours.
Detailed reports are to be kept for at least two years for audit purposes.
It is acceptable if payments are made weekly in the payroll system to have a location process
outlining the weeks that will relate to each month i.e. if the month finishes mid-week then that whole
week's hours can be counted in the following month. This process must however result in only 52
weeks to be included during the full financial year and the Location must create a calendar to clearly
show which weeks are reported within each reporting month for the financial year. The calendar must
be approved by the Group Manager – H&S.
Note: Where the actual leave taken, or overtime paid for the month cannot be obtained within the
required timeframes, it is acceptable to utilise the previous month's balance as long as the process is
documented and is consistently applied throughout the year to ensure 12 months of data is utilised.
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Where there is a time and attendance system but the Division wants to use Option 3, approval of the
Group Manager – H&S must be obtained.
OPTION 3: Exposure hours for divisions not using SAP HR data or a Time and
Attendance system.
Where a Division does not have a time and attendance system in place or has obtained approval from
H&S Lead to use Option 3, it may use a verifiable source of headcount information to calculate
exposure hours.
All other Divisions must use a verifiable source of headcount information which conforms to the
following business rules:
Our people who are part time are recorded as a percentage of a full time equivalent position
(e.g. three days per week is 60%);
Where a person starts with AT during the month, they will be counted as a full headcount for
the whole month;
Where a person leaves AT in that month, they will NOT be counted for their last month of
working;
Where a person transfers between Divisions/Locations, the determination of hours worked is
to be made through discussion between both Divisions/Sites and should be a straight cut at
month end for reporting purposes where possible;
Our people who are salaried, working overtime, travelling, or are on annual leave or sick leave
may not be considered due to the SAP and other Division payroll functions that are unable to
track this data; and
Our people who are on parental leave or unpaid long service leave for greater than 8 weeks
are not to be counted in the headcount for the months they are absent.
The exposure hours’ calculator is to be used to calculate the exposure hours for that month. These
spreadsheets must also be kept for two years for future auditing purposes.
FTE is to be obtained from payroll or another suitable source of personnel records e.g. SAP or
equivalent, and is the FTE as at the last day of the month.
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Where a different number of hours than 7.5 per day is to be used this must be approved by the Group
Manager – H&S
Incident Classification
It is very important that every incident (no matter how minor) is reported and correctly classified. The
classification of injuries is to be confirmed by the H&S Advisor or Manager for the Division. If at any
time, there is uncertainty in regards to a classification the Group Manager – H&S is to be consulted to
assist with the correct classification.
Retrospective Changes
Where an incident classification has not been reported appropriately, or the classification has
changed from its original classification, the change must be reported in the current reporting period
and approved by the Group Manager – H&S. As the H&S measures contribute to organisational
objectives, a strict audit protocol must be implemented for their reporting, therefore historical records
cannot be changed and all retrospective changes must be completed in the current reporting month
as a documented alteration.
Any reoccurrence of a previously recorded injury within 12 months is not considered recordable
unless there is clear work attribution. A reoccurrence outside of 12 months is recordable.
Once month-end has closed off, there will be no changes made to that month’s report. Any correction(s)
will be made in the following month's report, as an adjustment.
All retrospective changes must be approved by the Group Manager.
If there is a change in the classification, the details are updated in the reporting database.
If in doubt about the classification, always record at the highest classification. It is preferable to
down-grade later than not report at all, particularly at season end where deliberate holding back
of incidents will be viewed with caution.
The same process applies to any changes to the exposure hours or hours lost, if a correction is
necessary.
To present the measures as a 12 month rolling average, each of the calculation components
must also be a MAT (i.e. totals of 12-month duration).
TRIFR is calculated as the number of Lost Time Injuries + Significant Injuries Restricted Work
Injuries + Medical Treatment Injuries + Occupational Illnesses, multiplied by one million hours
and divided by the exposure hours, and is usually presented as a 12 month rolling average
(MAT).
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TRIFR MAT = (LTI MAT + SI MAT + RWI MAT + MTI MAT +OI MAT) x 1,000,000
Exposure Hours MAT
Note that fatalities are included as a lost time injury for purposes of this calculation.
SIFR = SI x 1,000,000
Exposure Hours
Note that Fatalities are included as a Lost Time Injury for purposes of this calculation.
Note that Fatalities are included as a Lost Time Injury for purposes of this calculation.
MTIFR is calculated as the number of Medical Treatment Injures, multiplied by one million and
divided by the exposure hours, and is usually presented as a 12 month rolling average (MAT).
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LTISR = LTI Hours Lost x 1,000,000
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4 Responsibilities
Chief Executive
Ensuring processes exist for accurate reporting; and
Undertaking independent review of the reporting process for accuracy.
Managers
Ensuring this standard is implemented as required; and
Ensuring all monthly reports are completed and submitted in a timely fashion in accordance
with this element.
5 Other Information
HS13 Incident Management Standard.
H&S Definitions (HS01-01-01).
Full table of Procedures (HS01-01-02).
Measuring and Monitoring H&S Performance (HS16).
6 Document Control
Document Number HS16-01
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