Guidance on Developing Safety Performance Indicators For Industry
This Guidance on Developing Safety Performance Indicators (“Guidance on SPI”) was
prepared to assist enterprises that wish to implement and/or review Safety Performance
Indicator Programmes. The three chapters in this Guidance are designed to help enterprises
better understand safety performance indicators, and how to implement SPI Programmes.
Specifically, Chapter 1 provides important background information on the Guidance and
on SPIs more generally including (i) a description of the target audience for this
Guidance, (ii) defi nitions of SPIs and related terms, and (iii) insights on the reasons
for implementing an SPI Programme. Chapter 2 sets out a seven-step process for implementing
an SPI Programme, along with three examples of how different types of enterprises
might approach the establishment of such a Programme. These seven steps build on the
experience of a number of enterprises in the UK that worked with the Health and Safety
Executive to develop a practical approach for applying performance indicators. Chapter
3 provides additional support for the development of an SPI Programme by setting out
a menu of possible elements (targets, outcome indicators and activities indicators).
This menu is extensive in light of the different types of potentially interested enterprises,
recognising that each enterprise will likely choose only a limited number of the elements
to monitor its key areas of concern. Furthermore, it is understood that an enterprise
may decide to implement an SPI Programme in steps, focusing fi rst on only a few priority
areas, and then expanding and amending its Programme as experience is gained. Annexes
provide further support with an expanded explanation of metrics and a summary of targets,
along with a glossary, a list of selected references and a copy of the Guiding Principles’
“Golden Rules.”
Published on September 03, 2014
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