Businesses can Assess Health and Safety Performance

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has launched a web-based tool to help small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) identify how well they are managing health and safety. The Health and Safety Performance Indicator can help you to:

• understand how well you identify and manage health and safety hazards in your business
• find guidance to help you improve your management of health and safety
• benchmark against other businesses
• give your insurance broker a better understanding of how your business handles workplace hazards with a view to getting the lowest possible premium.

The Indicator works by asking a series of questions on key hazards most commonly faced by SMEs and incident frequency. It can be found at www.hspi.info-exchange.com