Incidence rate, accidents

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). 

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. 

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. 

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... 

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. 

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... 

Two of the more easily recognized industry measures include the accident rate and the injury incident rate ... 

With these activity-based performance measures, there is also a variety of safety metrics that can be used to assess program performance. As identified by OSHA in studies ofVPP organizations, OSHA injury incidence rates, lost work day rates, and workers compensation losses are a few safety metrics that have been correlated to the performance of the VPP criteria activities. These measures can easily be expanded to include unsafe behaviors, accident trends, and near misses. 

Step 1. Review the organization s safety data, including injury statistics and actual accident reports. Determine if the organization is above or below industry average. Identify groups of workers with the highest and lowest incidence rates. 

The second suggested analysis should take the contractors OSHA incident rates into consideration. OSHA requires employers to report and record accident information on occupational injuries and illnesses on the annual OSHA 300 Log. The employer must... 

How do we systematically assess the implications of incidents and accidents How do we feedback in-service experience and compare it with predicted values for failure rates ... 

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