Psychometric Assessments for Workplace Safety

Reduce safety incidents and risk

Psychometric Assessments – the science of predicting safety performance

When assessing for safety, a candidate’s behavioural preferences only tell one part of the story. To get a complete picture of their propensity to work safely, Davidson can test their abilities and mind-set, together with behaviours, to predict their likelihood of having a safety incident.

When included as a component of a pre-employment evaluation, Davidson’s psychometric safety assessments are specifically proven to predict the safety performance of your new hires, decrease injury risk, improve safety culture, and performance a key measures such as AIFR (all injury frequency rate).

Our Approach

Assessments can be customised to your individual organisation’s needs. Best practice combines safety, cognitive and psychomotor assessments to provide an accurate measure of an individual’s propensity to behave safely in their role.

These have been developed from extensive research on the safe behaviours needed to minimise injury and hazards on the job. Measures include reaction time, stress recovery, attention, concentration, speed and trajectory judgement and visual co-ordination.

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

Case study

Davidson's safety assessment reduces injuries by 51%

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

$28.6 billion

Each year, on average, over 620,000 Australian workers suffer work-related injuries or illnesses.

Work-related injury and illness have a devastating impact on workers, their families and the community.

Not only do work-related injuries cause physical, mental and emotional distress, they cost the Australian economy $28.6 billion annually.

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Independently validated results

Davidson worked with one of Australia’s major rail and logistics organisations over a period of 10 years. We assessed over 5,500 candidates in a 2-year period.

Our findings revealed that staff who had scored above the 25^th percentile in their assessments, delivered the following on-the-job safety performance results:

Reduce Workplace Injuries

51% reduction in workplace injuries of new hires across safety critical roles

Build Safety Culture

Employees who pass our safety screening are:

71% more likely to lodge a near-miss incident report

6 times more likely to report a workplace hazard

Those candidates who did not meet the safety benchmarks in the safety assessments were significantly more likely to have a work-related injury. Those who did not meet benchmark for the assessments were:

Understands Safety Instructions are

65%