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Psychometric assessments reduce safety incidents and risk

Case Study

Our psychometric assessment solution


Davidson designed a psychometric assessment solution that predicted a candidate’s capability, in safety critical roles, to perform their role safely.


This helped our client reduce

safety incidents of new hires by

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Challenge


When assessing for safety a candidate’s behavioural preferences only tells one part of the story.


To get a complete picture of their propensity to work safely,

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We test for their

abilities and mind-set

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together with

behaviours,

to predict safety potential.

Our client, a major Australian rail and logistics organisation, came to us for help with a set of objectives to enhance its workforce’s performance in safety critical roles.


An assessment solution to predict a candidate’s capability to perform the role safely would enhance recruitment practices for safety critical roles and enable the organisation to:

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Minimise business risk

by ensuring its workforce met safety requirements

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Maximise hire quality

by improving the likelihood of selecting people who could perform safety critical tasks

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Reduce cost per hire

by identifying processes to improve efficiencies in its recruitment.

Solutions


Our Business Advisory team created a new, customised assessment framework, which was applied across the organisation’s workforce of safety critical roles.


We used a combination of our

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Safety

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Cognitive

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Psychomotor

assessments to provide an accurate measure of an individual’s propensity to behave safely in their role.




Through our psychomotor assessment, we administered tests and simulated exercises to assess abilities and competencies specific to safety-critical roles.


These had been developed from extensive research on the safe behaviours needed to minimise injury and hazards on the job. Measures included

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Reaction time

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Stress recovery

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Attention and concentration

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Speed

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Trajectory judgement

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Visual coordination

Outcomes


Over approximately a two year period, Davidson assessed

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people

These included both internal and external candidates applying for safety critical roles.

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Zero Harm Assessment

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Situational Safety Awareness Assessment

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Understands Safety Instructions Assessment

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Visual Coordination Assessment

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Attention and Concentration Assessment

By avoiding hiring candidates who did not meet the safety benchmarks, the organisation made significant financial savings through

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Reduced workplace compensation claim

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Reduced workplace injury-related costs

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Reduced injury risk overall

This created a safer workspace for all of its employees, and reduced safety incidents of new hires by

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This created a safer workspace for all of its employees, and reduced safety incidents of new hires by

0 %
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