What is the Bradford Factor? How to calculate a Bradford Score?
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What is the Bradford Factor
The Bradford Factor is a systems used to calculate a score for each employee's absence is a year. The higher the score, the more disruption the employees absence is causing your company.
Bradford scores are a way of identifying individuals with serious absence and patterns of absence worthy of further investigation. It helps highlight causes for concern and often is one of the starting points in an attendance procedure.
Using the Bradford Factor helps to discourage excess absenteeism and allows managers to compare employee attendance between different departments, as well as across the company as a whole.
How to calculate a Bradford Score
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S x S x D = Bradford points score S = the number of occasions of absence in the last 52 weeks D = the total number of days’ absence in the last 52 weeks |
Examples
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Employee A
Has 9 sickdays in a year, 4 are single day absences and 5 are in a block.
S = 1(1) + 1(1) + 1(1) + 1(1) + 1(5) = 5
D = 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 5 = 9
score = 5 x 5 x 9 = 225
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Employee B
Has 15 sickdays in a year, 3 blocks of five days.
S = 1(5) + 1(5) + 1(5) = 3
D = 5 + 5 + 5 = 15
score = 3 x 3 x 15 = 135
Bradford Factor Case Studies
Case study on how the HM Prison Service used the Bradford Factor to reduce absenteeism by 25% over four years.
HM Prison Service - Bradford Factor - Case Study
Shirley Powell, head of HR, The Childcare Corporation describes how she used the Bradford Factor to tackle absenteeism.
The Childcare Corporation - Bradford Factor - Case Study
Calculating Bradford Factor Video
Links on the Bradford Factor
