Worker safety benchmarking for hospitals

Know how your injury rates compare with hospitals like yours.

HIPS tracks the five injuries that hurt healthcare workers most, turns them into rates you can compare with anonymous peer hospitals, and shows where prevention will pay off first.

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Identifiable records never leave your hospital.

Sample report · illustrative dataYour rates vs hospitals with 200–299 beds

Your hospitalPeers, 25th–75th percentilePeer median

Healthcare workers get hurt on the job more than anyone else in private industry.

562,500

injury and illness cases in health care and social assistance in 2023, the most of any private industry. BLS

3.4 vs 2.3

cases per 100 full-time workers in health care and social assistance in 2024, against all private industry. BLS, Jan 2026

2×

Nurse assistants had more than twice the nurse injury rate for patient handling and workplace violence across 112 facilities, 2012–2014. MMWR

82%

of patient handling injuries with equipment data happened when no lifting equipment was used, 2012–2014. MMWR

How it works

Record or upload
Log incidents in HIPS, or upload the export from the system you already use. Map your local terms once.
Approve the month
HIPS strips identifiers and shows your manager exactly what will be sent. Nothing leaves until they approve it.
Compare and act
Rates refresh against peer hospitals you choose: by bed size, region or type. Drill into units, jobs and causes.

Five modules, one national data standard

ET102

Patient handling and movement

Lifts, transfers and repositioning, with the equipment used.

ET101

Slips, trips and falls

Fall type, floor hazards and footwear, by unit.

ET103

Workplace violence

Verbal, physical and property assaults, and what led to them.

ET202

Sharps and needlesticks

Device type, safety design and stage of use.

ET201

Blood and body fluid exposures

Route, agent and the protective equipment worn.

Your data stays yours.

The incident app runs on your hospital's network. Each month HIPS sends only coded, de-identified counts that your manager has reviewed and approved. No names, no narratives, no worker IDs.

How we protect it

A proven method, rebuilt for today

The data standard and rate method behind HIPS were first used in a national surveillance network of 112 U.S. healthcare facilities and published by CDC in 2015 (MMWR 64(15)). HIPS is an independent product built by the team that designed that approach, now with modern software, voice reporting and a hosting model that keeps identifiable data with the hospital.

Start with your own numbers.

Three hospitals can join the founding pilot at no cost.