Wednesday 26th April 2023 marked the annual awards ceremony for the health and safety community. Hosted by well-known TV presenter, Tess Daly, the night recognised the achievements of organisations in key health and safety categories.

One of those categories was 'The Best Use of Health and Safety Data to Lower Incident Rates'. This award recognises organisations that have endeavoured to collect data linked to risk control systems and health and safety management arrangements with an aim to analyse routine data and better understand the likelihood of future events. Nominees will have shown exceptional understanding of leading indicators and be able to demonstrate how to plan to better understand incidents to protect workforces.

TSO won the award for their hard work in managing the internationally renowned Safety Climate Tool (SCT) on behalf of the Health and Safety Executive. TSO have made marked improvements to the tool in recent years, engaging with users to ensure the tool remains market leading, and that benchmarking data collected and shared to customers can be effective in driving down incident rates across industries.

The SCT delivers an objective measure of safety culture (often referred to as 'the way things are done around here'). It is a combination of the attitudes and values held, the behaviours and the management system within an organisation or departments, that influences how something is done, rather than how it should be done. Since managing the tool, TSO has acquired more users across a range of industries and sectors, which has led to numerous reliable datasets for organisations to benchmark their performance against. Current active user organisations of the tool cover circa 130,000 workers.