A large number of organisations aim to reduce the incidence of health and safety incidents and workplace accidents. While the environment and safety culture of an organisation play a role in this, personnel factors are also very important. The HSI assesses a range of ability and personality characteristics that represent a tendency towards safe behaviour in the workplace environment.
Ability Aspect
Research shows us that high cognitive ability is associated with fewer accidents, lower accident mortality rates, fewer deliberate safety violations and lower accident risk. The HSI assesses ability in areas that are important for safety in a range of work contexts.
Personality Aspect
The personality measures in the HSI are designed to be intuitively meaningful while reflecting major themes in contemporary safety and personality research.
Advantages
Reflects a combination of targeted personality and ability scales in one assessment.
Includes an overall assessment score, as well as overall ability and personality scores.
Allows for identification of potential Health and Safety risk areas.
Ability components are timed while the personality components are not.
