Corporate health and safety performance index

A Corporate Health and Safety Performance Index (CHaSPI) has been launched by HSE. CHaSPI is a web-based tool to assist large organisations with over 250 employees (both public and private) to:

• get a measure of the effectiveness of their internal controls over health and safety
• to benchmark their performance against
  • their own targets and
  • the performance of their peers.

• It works by asking a series of questions on, for example, health and safety management, occupational health risk management and sickness absence rates. A score out of ten is then calculated.

Overall CHaSPI results are made publicly available.

A press release was issued with the launch of CHaSPI.

Research

• Health and Safety Indicators for Institutional Investors
  was published in 2002. It identified the need for a health and safety indicator.
• The development of a health and safety management index for use by business, investors, employees, the regulator and other stakeholders
  was published in 2003 RR217
• Further development of a corporate health and safety performance management index for use by business, investors, employees, the regulator and other stakeholders: validating the index was published in 2005 RR335
• Further development of the health and safety performance management index was published in 2006 RR490