The work safety best practice of the Finnish subsidiary of the international construction Group Skanska has been awarded at the European Campaign on Risk Assessment competition. Thanks to it Skanska Finland has managed to diminish the ratio of accidents substantially.

A total of 400 candidates were chosen in 2008 by the European Union member states as candidates to the European Campaign on Risk Assessment competition organized by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (www. osha.europa.eu). After thorough evaluation, the Agency awarded recognition to eight best practices.
Among them is the work safety best practice of Skanska Finland.

The Company uses QPR’s software for its performance and process management tasks. One daily performance management best practice in its construction sites is the now rewarded practice to book the observed work safety risks by QPR’s performance management software, QPR ScoreCard. By doing this, Skanska Finland managed to diminish the ratio of accidents leading to at least one day-long sick leave per million working hours by 66% from the starting level in four years’ time.

“The remarkable outcome of Skanska’s work safety best practice shows how measuring leads to better consideration. Furthermore, it shows how performance management brings excellent results also in areas other than its typical field of hard financial indicators”, says Mr. Matti Erkheikki, Vice President of QPR’s software sales in Finland.

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For more information, please contact:
QPR Software Plc
Matti Erkheikki, VP, Software Sales Finland
Puh. +358 40 717 2570
matti.erkheikki[at]qpr.com