Indeed, companies that do not meet certain workplace safety benchmarks may be barred from competing for such work.
However, there is currently no universally agreed upon approach for the process of road safety benchmarking, and performing the practice successfully is by no means easy.
Additionally, the City of New Haven passed the Complete Streets Legislation in 2009 that developed a complete street policy that included developing a design manual and community planning process, and working with the New Haven Police department to develop traffic safety benchmarks to improve the safety and visibility of pedestrians, cyclists, and transit users on the city's streets (Lynch 2008).
Access to open data could enable these stakeholders to replicate processes and achieve food safety benchmarks.
Instead, care should be taken to ensure that study participants understand that population averages should not be considered safety benchmarks.
This real-time electronic dashboard allows anesthesia providers to access the daily annotated surgical schedule, to review current departmental patient care protocols, and to track and compare their individual performance in meeting established quality and safety benchmarks.
For example, one researcher indicated that when pesticide exposure results were reported to individuals, it was critical to ensure that any comparisons to general population levels from the CDC report were not misinterpreted as safety benchmarks.
A recent report of state regulations by the National Association of Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies NACCRRAA) scored states on a variety of health and safety benchmarks including: staff to child ratios, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) prevention, hand washing and diapering, playground surfaces, and emergency preparedness [ 74].
Evidence from the review promotes hospitals to have a Board quality committee, with a specific item on quality at the Board meeting, a quality performance measurement report and a dashboard with national quality and safety benchmarks along with standardised quality and safety measures.
