The RoSPA Employee Safety Profiler (ESP)
Fitting into an organisation's overall health and safety management system, the RoSPA Employee Safety Profiler (ESP) can assist managers to identify and prioritise occupational safety development and training needs among existing and prospective employees.
Designed to measure employees' dependability and attitudes to safety in a broad range of frontline and operational roles, the RoSPA Employee Safety Profiler (ESP) features a simple output score to predict whether an applicant or employee is likely to possess a high level of safety focus.
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What is the RoSPA Employee Safety Profiler (ESP)?
The RoSPA Employee Safety Profiler (ESP) has been developed by SHL, a world leader in psychometric testing, in conjunction with RoSPA. It is a psychometric assessment which, if used in conjunction with other recruitment and employee development tools, can aid managers by indicating an individual’s fit to jobs in which safety procedures have to be followed rigorously as well as his or her attitude to working with others and under supervision.
The RoSPA Employee Safety Profiler (ESP) is designed to help identify employees and prospective employees who are likely to be safe, productive and reliable, and therefore to pinpoint if and where further occupational safety training is required.
How the RoSPA Employee Safety Profiler (ESP) can help your business
The economic cost of workplace injury and ill health (excluding cancer) is in the region of £14 billion per year (HSE 09/10). In addition, in 2010/11 26.4 million working days were lost due to health and safety incidents, with higher rates for workplace injury being found in less experienced workers.
These figures demonstrate the importance, for any organisation, of selecting candidates who are reliable and safety conscious. For anyone operating in the retail, transport, heavy industry, production or hospitality sectors, by making a safety assessment part of your health and safety management system you can quickly identify those who are most likely be effective team members and be more safety conscious.
Cost saving benefits of the RoSPA Employee Safety Profiler (ESP)
The RoSPA Employee Safety Profiler (ESP) can help organisations prevent accidents and avoid the related costs, both human and financial, by proactively focusing attention on where interventions, which could include safety training, the provision of information or supervision, might be appropriate.
The cost savings in administration are small when compared to the longer term savings derived from screening candidates for their level of safety focus, which:
- Reduces the potential cost of accidents in the business
- Mitigates the risk of lost productivity, and costly absentee administration costs.
Administering the RoSPA Employee Safety Profiler (ESP)
The RoSPA Employee Safety Profiler (ESP) delivers a short assessment of potential and current employees' level of safety focus and reliability in the workplace. It is extremely easy and cost effective to use, being:
- Quick and easy to administer via the internet - approximately 5-10 minutes per candidate
- Designed for line managers to administer, score and interpret with no training necessary
- Able to produce a single risk rating as an overall indicator of dependability
- Efficient and easy to integrate into a recruitment or development process.
This ease of use makes the RoSPA Employee Safety Profiler (ESP) ideal for high volume use as it can quickly and accurately identify those candidates who possess a high level of safety focus and can be relied upon to produce high quality work.
Sample question:
The statement that best describes me at work is..
- I enjoy being the centre of attention
- People would describe me as being loyal
- Neither
How the ESP scores can be interpreted
The RoSPA Employee Safety Profiler (ESP) identifies potential and existing employees who will be reliable and have a high level of safety focus. The ESP score has five bands that reflect different levels of risk and fit.
Those who score highly on the ESP:
- Are likely to have a strong fit to jobs where step-by-step procedures, team working and strict working hours are important
Those who have a low score on the ESP:
- Are likely to require some development to fit a job where the use of step-by-step procedures, team working and strict working hours are important
The information provided by ESP can be supplemented by other assessments looking at the match to specific job requirements, in the case of recruitment, by a structured interview. If an existing employee undertakes the assessment, it is important to consider the ESP score in relation to the role that the individual is currently doing and what you currently know about the individual.
| Band |
Interpretation |
Likely impacts (for work in general) |
| √ √ |
High potential strength |
A candidate in the high potential strength band is likely to have a strong fit to jobs where step-by-step procedures, team working and strict working hours are important |
| √ |
Potential strength |
A candidate in the potential strength band is likely to have a reasonable fit to jobs where step-by-step procedures, team working and strict working hours are important |
| • |
Moderate scope for development |
A candidate in the moderate scope for development band is likely to have a moderate fit to jobs where step-by-step procedures, team working and strict working hours are important |
| x |
Potential development need |
A candidate in the potential development need band is likely to be less suited to jobs where the use of step-by-step procedures, team working and strict working hours are important |
| x x |
High potential development need |
A candidate in the high potential development need band is likely to require some development to fit a job where the use of step-by-step procedures, team working and strict working hours are important |
For further information about the RoSPA Employee Safety Profiler (ESP) call: +44 (0)121 248 2233 or email: sales@rospa.com
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