HS1: Health & Safety: Employees

The intent of this indicator is to assess health and safety performance associated with the entity’s employees. The health and safety of employees is a common key performance indicator for infrastructure operators.

Select Yes or No: If ‘Yes,’ complete the performance table and sub-questions.

Performance Tables

External Review

Select Yes or No: If selecting “Yes”, state whether the data submitted has been checked, verified, or assured (select one option; the most detailed level of scrutiny to which the data was subjected). If selecting ‘verified’ or ‘assured,’ select the standard from the dropdown menu.

The Scheme Lists page contains the complete list of accepted assurance and verification schemes.

GRESB does not require the selected standard to be specific to health and safety data. As such, a standard initially designed to verify/assure other types of sustainability data can be selected as long as the same thoroughness and review criteria are applied to data reported in HS1.

Terminology

Data coverage

The part of the asset for which data is available. Data coverage for any individual performance metric should represent an estimated percentage considering all material data related to all facilities and activities within the entity’s reporting boundary (RC3 and RC4) for the full reporting year.

Employee

Someone who works directly for the asset and receives compensation in the form of an hourly wage or annual salary for their work. This can be both onsite or offsite (such as in an administration office). Employers typically have to pay specific benefits such as contributions to pensions or taxes for employees. Employees may be either full time or part time and may operate on a short term contract.

Externally checked

Applies to instances when a third party has reviewed the data in a structured and consistent process, but no official certification has been awarded.

Externally verified

Applies to instances where a third party has reviewed the reporting against an existing scheme. When this checkbox is ticked, participants must select the scheme name from the dropdown.

• Note that GRESB treats verification and assurance equally in the context of the assessment

Externally assured

Applies to instances where a third party has reviewed the data against an existing scheme. When this checkbox is ticked, participants should select the scheme name from the dropdown.

• Note that GRESB treats verification and assurance equally in the context of the assessment

Fatality

The death occurring in the current reporting period, arising from an injury or disease sustained or contracted.

Health and safety

Protecting the entity's stakeholders from harm or death due to injury or disease. Often, this is executed by developing policy, analyzing and controlling health and safety risks, providing training, and recording and investigating health and safety incidents.

Hours worked

The total number of hours worked by the workers in the entity, either employees or contractors, expressed in actual total hours. For example, a worker under a 40-hour contract working for four weeks has worked 160 hours in total.

Lost Time Injury

Any injury, arising in the course of work, that results in temporary or permanent time away from work. Includes fatalities, permanent disabilities and injuries that have led to absence from work.

Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR)

The number of lost time injuries occurring in a workplace per million hours worked.

Lost time injuries / Total hours worked X 1,000,000

Near-miss incident

An incident that had the potential to result in injury, but where in no injury was sustained.

Recordable injury

An injury arising that requires medical treatment beyond first aid, as well as one that causes death, days away from work, restricted work or transfer to another job, or loss of consciousness.

Total Recordable Injury Frequency Rate (TRIFR)

The number of incidents per 100 full-time workers. To calculate TRIFR use the following formula:

Total recordable injuries / Total number of hours worked X 1,000,000

Data: GRESB automatically validates data in the performance tables.

Evidence: Providing evidence of external review in the form of a third-party letter or certificate is optional. Evidence will not be subject to manual validation for this indicator in 2025.

Evidence should include:

• Proof of the existence of a third-party review of the data;

• Clear indication that the reviewed data reflects the reported data;

• A description of the type of third-party review (checked, verified, or assured) and the used assurance standard (if applicable);

• Proof that the data review applies to the entity.

Validation Basics

Materiality-Based Scoring

The relevance of the 'Health & Safety: Employees' issue (determined by the GRESB Materiality Assessment) defines this indicator's maximum score.

For more details, refer to the Asset Scoring Basics page or download the Asset Materiality & Scoring Tool.

Scoring of Metrics

The scored metrics for Health & Safety: Employees are:

• Lost time injuries (50% of HS1)

• Total recordable injuries (50% of HS1)

For these metrics, participants must complete all columns to obtain points as follows:

Lost Time Injuries

• 25% of the total indicator score: based on a value reported for Reporting-year performance Data Coverage

  • The value reported for data coverage serves as a multiplier for the points available for this metric (i.e., only entities that report 100% receive the full scoring weight).

• 15% of the indicator score will be based on the reporting of a value in Reporting-year performance

• 5% of the indicator score will be based on the reporting of a target in Reporting-year target

  • The scoring will be based on whether a target was set, not on whether the target was achieved.

• 5% of the indicator score will be based on the reporting of a target in Future-year target

  • The scoring will be based on whether a target was set, not on whether the entity is on track to achieve the target.

Total Recordable Injuries

• 25% of the indicator score: based on a value reported for Reporting-year performance Data Coverage

  • The value reported for data coverage serves as a multiplier for the points available for this metric (i.e., only entities that report 100% receive the full scoring weight).

• 15% of the indicator score will be based on the reporting of a value in Reporting-year performance

• 5% of the indicator score will be based on the reporting of a target in Reporting-year target

  • The scoring will be based on whether a target was set, not on whether the target was achieved.

• 5% of the indicator score will be based on the reporting of a target in Future-year target

  • The scoring will be based on whether a target was set, not on whether the entity is on track to achieve the target.

Notes

• Participants must input a target year under "Future-year target" and a numeric value in the underlying scored metric to score for this metric.

• Not all scored cells/metrics are mandatory. If a scored (light green) cell is not outlined in dark green, leaving it blank will still result in a negative scoring impact. ‘This applies to the following metrics:

  • Lost time injuries: Reporting-year target, Future-year target

  • Total recordable injuries: Reporting-year target, Future-year target

• Reporting of external data review is not scored.

Scoring Basics

European Agency for Safety and Health at Work

ILO - International Labour Standards on Occupational Safety and Health

USA OSHA - Using Leading Indicators

Alignment with External Frameworks

GRI Standards (2018) 403: Occupational Health & Safety

Relevant UN Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth

8.8 Protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular women migrants, and those in precarious employment

SDG 3-Good Health and Well-being