Summary
One of the world’s leading freight transport companies identified a strong relationship between scores on Onetest’s Work Safety Assessment and workplace safety accidents, injuries and sick days amongst truck drivers and dockhands.
These findings support research that shows, regardless of workplace safety training, policies and procedures, some people are more likely to cause accidents and injuries than others due to their attitudes and beliefs.
Business Problem
As one of the world’s leading freight transport businesses, this company needed to find a way of identifying high safety risk individuals in order to reduce incidents, and save time and money.
They completed a 12 month pilot of the Onetest Work Safety Assessment before rolling out comprehensive pre-employment safety risk screening.
Results
152 drivers and dockhands participated in the pilot study. Their Onetest Work Safety Assessment scores were compared to actual workplace accidents, injuries and number of sick days.
This study found that compared to ‘low risk’ employees those classified as ‘high risk’ had:
- 53% more road accidents
- 39% higher accident costs
- 2.5 times more medical treatment injuries (MTIs)
- 3.5 times more serious injuries and more than double the total number of injuries
- 11% more sick days.
Business Implications
The results of this study support the use of the Onetest Work Safety Assessment in screening potential drivers and dockhands.
This will allow this company to confidently reduce workplace accidents and injuries by screening out 'high risk' candidates before they commence employment.
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