Accidents incident rate

An important aspect of environmental, health, and safety laws and regulations is enforcement. Eederal, state, and local regulatory authorities usually have large enforcement sections. In the environmental area, compliance audits are usually conducted aimually. OSHA, both federal and state, usually audits based on a faciHty s accident/incident rate. 

Itoh K, Andersen HB, Seki M. 2004. Trackmaintenance train operators attitudes to job, organisation and management, and their correlation with accident/incident rate Journal Cognition, Technology Work, Springer London, Issue Vol 6, Num 2 / May, 2004, pp. 63-78. 

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If all minor injuries are taken into account, the accident incidence rate was 204 in the Finnish adult population. The national survey gives figures that in many ways support the workplace-specific data. The survey gives a picture on a broader basis —all adult Finns—compared with the specific cases. When safety management needs are considered, workplace-specific own data is necessary. 

However the number employed in these two industries is widely different and, to put the figures in perspective, the fatal accident incidence rate should be considered ... 

Subject to the above limitations, an organization with a high accident incidence rate is likely to have a negative or poor health and safety culture. 

Any simple measurement of performance in terms of accident (injury) frequency rates or accident/incident rate is not seen as a reliable guide to the safety performance of an undertaking. The report finds there is no clear correlation between such measurements and the work conditions, in injury potential, or the severity of injuries that have occurred. A need exists for more accurate measurements so that a better assessment can be made of efforts to control foreseeable losses. 

The most obvious implication to draw from accident/ incident rates or the number of fires or false alarms is that if they are going up period on period it is likely that there is a negative culture. However, it is important to consider, not only the numbers of these safety events, but also the seriousness of the outcomes. If it is the case that there are many reports of personal injury accidents but the injuries sustained are negligible, it may... 

Managers will normally take comfort if in general the accident/incident rates are in ratios that would normally be expected, there are few serious injuries and the rate of injuries maintains a downward trend - as would reports from employees highlighting fire safety issues, making a positive contribution to the management of fire risk in the workplace. 

Statistical information on past accidents and sickness may identify unsatisfactory trends in operating procedures which can be eliminated at the design stage of safe systems of work. The use of accident statistics and rates, e.g. accident incidence rate, as a sole measure of safety performance is not recommended, however, due to the variable levels of accident reporting in work situations. Under-reporting of accidents, common in many organisations, can result in inaccurate comparisons being made between one location and another. 

TABLE 1.7 U.S. fatalities, nonfatal days lost (NFDL) Injuries, total accident incident rates (IRs), and severity measures for underground and surface mines by sector, 1995 (Reich and McAteer 1997a, b, c, d, e)... 

Once the challenge of locating accurate and complete records is met, the task of trend determination can begin. One of these key trends might be the accident incidence rate both for lost workday and recordable incidents. Another key trend that could probably be determined is the Experience Modification Rate (EMR). One should be able to obtain this number from the workers compensation carrier. The workers compensation carrier probably has already made a determination of which claims the most money has been expended on, which claims included the most days away from work, which parts of the body were affected most of the time, and so on. Getting information from the workers compensation carrier can be another good source of information. 

In addition, the results tend to establish the applicability of a behaviorally based, positive measure of safety. Such a measure is useful for measuring and enhancing the presence of safety while other, after-the-fact measures based on accident/incidence rates measure only the absence of safety. 

End-of-pipe measures continue to be vitally important. The largest PSM and ESH management costs are accident and incident related. If you reduce the costs of managing PSM and ESH, yet accident and incident rates rise beyond any normal statistical variation, the new system is costing the company more. Near misses are a leading indicator for accidents and incidents and should not be neglected. 

The OSHA incidence rate provides information on all types of work-related injuries and illnesses, including fatalities. This provides a better representation of worker accidents than systems based on fatalities alone. For instance, a plant might experience many small accidents with resulting injuries but no fatalities. On the other hand, fatality data cannot be extracted from the OSHA incidence rate without additional information. 

Recognizing that the chemical industry is safe, why is there so much concern about chemical plant safety The concern has to do with the industry s potential for many deaths, as, for example, in the Bhopal, India, tragedy. Accident statistics do not include information on the total number of deaths from a single incident. Accident statistics can be somewhat misleading in this respect. For example, consider two separate chemical plants. Both plants have a probability of explosion and complete devastation once every 1000 years. The first plant employs a single operator. When the plant explodes, the operator is the sole fatality. The second plant employs 10 operators. When this plant explodes all 10 operators succumb. In both cases the FAR and OSHA incidence rate are the same the second accident kills more people, but there are a correspondingly larger number of exposed hours. In both cases the risk taken by an individual operator is the same.4... 

Another way of measuring accident performance is by the LTIR, or lost-time injury rate. This is identical to the OSHA incidence rate based on incidents in which the employee is unable to continue their normal duties. A plant site has 1200 full-time employees working 40 hr/week and 50 weeks/yr. If the plant had 2 lost-time incidents last year, what is the LTIR ... 

Layton D, Harris S, Wilton LV, Shakir SA. Comparison of incidence rates of cerebrovascular accidents and transient ischaemic attacks in observational cohort studies of patients prescribed risperidone, quetiapine or olanzapine in general practice in England including patients with dementia. J Psychopharmacol 2005 19 473-82. 

The lost time accident frequency rate rose from 2.59 incidents per 200 000 working hours in 1996 to 2.72 in 1997, then fell to 1.75 in 1998. 

Lost time accidents NOSA 5 star rating requires a Disabling Incident Frequency Rate (DIFR) of less than one. Most of the South African sites have this rating, and numbers of disabling injuries and incidence rates are given for most sites. 

Health and safety in constmction is an international concern. In Denmark, the number of registered accidents in the constmction sector in 1994 was 27.1 per 1000 constmction workers (Arbejdstilsynet 19%). Ahigherniunberof 220/1000 workers injured in 1996 were reported in Hong Kong (Wong et al. 1999). As for the fatality rate, Enrope had a fataUty incidence rate of 10.4 per 100,000 in 2001 (Kaqalainen 2007), and for the same year, there were 13.3 deaths per 100,000 constmction workers in the USA (US Department of Labor 2001). However, a significant drop in the... 

In 2000, our total recordable incidence rate of 1.02 per 200,000 employee hours worked bettered our 1999 rate and was well ahead of the industry average for large companies of 2.26 recordable injuries per 200,000 employee hours worked. For the 2001 fiscal year, results continued to improve, with recordable accidents dropping to a rate of 0.82 per... 

In 2010, in the United States, some 4,690 employees were killed in accidents while at their workplaces carrying out their normal duties. In the same year, nearly 3.1 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses were reported among private industry employers, resulting in an incidence rate of 3.5 cases per 100 equivalent full-time workers. According to the US. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2010), some 900,000 of these cases involved days away from work, more than 200,000 were as a result of falls, 185,000 were back injuries, and 370,000 sprains, strains, and tears were reported. 

The safety record is the worst evil because it makes people scared to report injuries, he [McKinnon] said. Moreover, he noted, incidence rates are a record of failure and not an accurate record either. He cited a company that had been listed as going more than 66 million man-bours without an accident, but an OSHA investigation found 117 injuries bad not been reported. 

Disabling injury incidence rate Disabling injury severity rate Accident ratio Property damages... 

The highest amounts of incidence rate (accidents per 100 000 workers) are registered in manufacturing wood industry (1830.8), food industry (1535.5) and furniture industry (1363.6) (Labour Inspectorate 2008). 

The statistics of fatal accidents show another tendency the rate of fatal accidents is decreased slightly over the last decade (Fig. 2). The rate of fatal accident per 100 000 workers has been between 3.2-4.2 in 3 recent years. Following ES AW methodology (ES AW, 2001), the incidence rate of fatal accidents in Estonia in 2005 is 3.0 while the average European Union figure is 2.6 (European Statistics 2008b). 

It is more complicated not to report fatal accidents and therefore, it may be a better indicator to assess working conditions in Estonia compared with other EU countries than the standardized index. The statistics of fatal accident is more reliable in Estonia. The incidence rate of fatal accidents has decreased due to increase of knowledge among employees and employers, introduction and implementation of modem technologies, equipment and machinery, efficient inspections by NLI etc. 

European Statistics on Accidents at Work (ESAW) and commuting accidents Fatal accidents at work - incidence rate 2008b. Available online at http //epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/... 

Accident statistics from other contractors operating principally marine plant are given in Table 3.4 and Table 3.5. This shows that the over-three-day incident rate is similar to the construction average with major accidents higher than the construction average. However, the latter is based on only a small number of incidents. 

Update OHAs should be scheduled to address the bathtub curve for the end product. The bathtub curve predicts that accident and incident rates tend... 

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