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

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

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