Fatal Risks Data for Various Activities in the United Kingdom

Fatal Risks Data for Various Activities in the United Kingdom 

Some British authors from the chemical industry began discussing risks to employees using a concept of Fatal Accident Rates (FAR), as they were called in the early 1970s. There were widely published articles explaining the risks of the 1960s and 1970s. 

In 1992, Dr. Edmund Hambly provided more current Fatal Accident Rate information on the United Kingdom in the article, Preventing Disasters. [36] Dr. Hambly covered 27 individual activities, including such diverse risks as the Plague in London in 1665 (with a FAR of 15,000) to a present-day fatality by a Terrorist Bomb in the London Area (with a FAR of 0.01). Table 1-8 provides his numbers on risks of six different activities. In addition, I have compared Dr. Frank Lees s numbers for the last two risk figures. [35] 

How Are the Chemical and Refinery Industries Doing When It Comes to Major Losses  

This first chapter stresses the general safety and low risk rates of employees in the chemical and petroleum-refining industries. It also appears to some observers that World-Class 

This compilation compares the relative order of safety of the chemical indushy to other industries such as construction and transportation using up-to-date FAR. This relative safety must be kept in mind as we review the case histories in the rest of this book. 

How Do Chemical Plants Compare on Nonfatal Accident Hates  

The National Safety Council of the United States reports volumes of statistics on recordable work injuries and illnesses based on recordkeeping requirements of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. The 1995 figures were based on 124 million employees. [37] 

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