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
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,
We test for their
abilities and mind-set
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:
Minimise business risk
by ensuring its workforce met safety requirements
Maximise hire quality
by improving the likelihood of selecting people who could perform safety critical tasks
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
Safety
Cognitive
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
Reaction time
Stress recovery
Attention and concentration
Speed
Trajectory judgement
Visual coordination
Outcomes
Over approximately a two year period, Davidson assessed
people
These included both internal and external candidates applying for safety critical roles.
Zero Harm Assessment
Situational Safety Awareness Assessment
Understands Safety Instructions Assessment
Visual Coordination Assessment
Attention and Concentration Assessment
By avoiding hiring candidates who did not meet the safety benchmarks, the organisation made significant financial savings through
Reduced workplace compensation claim
Reduced workplace injury-related costs
Reduced injury risk overall
Invest in improving the safety performance of new hires
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