Accident costs from workplace injuries and damage

Accident costs from workplace injuries and damage Accident costs 

Injury experience from workplace accidents can be foimd in mar official pirblica-tions. For a fuller pictirre, the average lost time injury frequency rate and the drrration rate for the injttries need to be cortsidered. You can usually obtain more information from yotu occupational health and safety authority. 

It is useful to consider the statistics from different points of view  

Note that the statistics are only as good as the injiuy reporting. The onfy nearty 100% reliable statistics, unfortunately, are fatalities. 

The most common unit of workplace injiuy performance is the Frequency Rate. Other rates in common use are the Average Time Lost Rate (Duration Rate) and the Incidence Rate. Some organizations use other rates and indicators to measure their injury experience examples being the Severity Rate and the Frequency-Severity Index. Severity Rate is based on those injuries which lead to more than a defined minimum of lost time. 

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