Re: Has anyone developed an SMS OHSAS 18001 Balanced Scorecard
Not sure what you mean by a "balanced" scorecard and I haven't had much to do with 18001 either but I know a little about OH&S.
First of all; stay away from zero lost time incidents and the other usual measurements. This might be a desirable target but in many cases is well nigh impossible and downright silly in many instances.
The metrics that I would keep would be on those things that influence the incidence of un-desired events. Things that drive the number of un-desired event up or down. Things like the level of supervision and management enforcement of required standards of behaviour, the safety of machinery, the extent of knowledge of the requirements of the safe way of carrying out a particular task among those who do the task, supervise the task and those directly impacted by the task.
The above paragraph usually sparks a row about whose responsible for working safely so I'll get in first and say that management own and control the safety management system, the design of the safety management system, the culture in management and the organisational culture generally. I think you get my drift on this so I will leave that continue with what I was saying.
We can’t measure culture or the effects of culture but we can measure those things that are essential to continuous reductions in undesired events.
In 20 years of working in OH&S I learned many things but the most important was this. The most important thing that drives safety performance is that:
There must be a safe way of carrying out every task that contains the risk of serious injury, that is known and understood by all persons who carry out the task, are directly impacted by the task, who supervise the task and those who manage the work involving the task.
Thereafter your work is all about finding out why the safe way of doing the task wasn’t implemented in its entirety; so base your scorecard on metrics that measure these drivers.