Industrial accident rates

Does industrial accident rate for community comprtfe favorably with national averages ... 

Another approach is to use government and private mortality and injury statistics. Calculated absolute risk estimates (the probability per year of a worker being injured or killed) can be compared to those de facto worker risk standards. For example, in the United Kingdom, industry and government alike are using the fatal accident rate (FAR, see Glos-... 

After many years of improvements in technical safety methods and process design, many orgaruzations have found that accident rates, process plant losses and profitability have reached a plateau beyond which further improvements seem impossible to achieve. Another finding is that even in orgarriza-tions with good general safety records, occasional large scale disasters occur which shake public confidence in the chemical process industry. The common... 

One of the most popular risk policies employed by industry is tlie FAR Concept (Fatal Accident Rate). FAR represents Uie nmiiber of fatal accidents per 1,000 workers in a working lifetime (10 lu-), where a working lifetime is assumed to be approximately lO lu-s. An acceptable FAR (by industries standards) is 4.0. Tliis is made up of ... 

Only the accidents rated with 5 stars (most complete information) are used for this research. In total 260 accidents were shown as 5-star accidents. From these 260 accidents, 91 occurred between 1995 and 2002. In these 91 accidents, 21 accidents involved transport by road, water, rail, or air. As those accidents did not impact on the chemical process industry they were excluded from the analysis. The 70 remaining accidents were distributed all over the world as can be seen from Figure 12. Please note that this figure does not represent the geographical distribution of all accidents in the world, it merely represents a sub selection of FACTS accidents. 

The British have published risk statistics associated with different jobs for several decades. Dr. Frank Lees s epic three-volume masterpiece, Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, is without a doubt the premier source of practical and statistical process safety reference material. Within the 3,962 pages of valuable facts, Dr. Lees has published fatal accident rates (FAR). [35]... 

Table 1-7 1987-90 Fatal Accident Rate (FAR) in Different Industries and Jobs 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. 

The hazard analysis of any industrial process impacts on risk assessment. Risk assessment involves the estimation of the frequency and consequences of a range of hazard scenarios and of individual and societal risk. The risk assessment process is shown in Figure 3.1. The risk criterion used in hazard analysis is the fatal accident rate (FAR). The FAR is defined as the number of fatalities per 108h exposure. The actual FAR in the U.K. was 3.5 in the chemical industry in 1975. No doubt the ideal FAR value should be zero, which is difficult to achieve in practice. 

Again, we spill out the horrendous numbers one out of every 25 in-patients becomes a victim of a medical accident. Some 195,000 people die of medical accidents every year. The actual figure might be twice of that, and medicine has the worst accident rate of any US industry. Substandard care in America kills over 57,000 people and wastes over 9 billion annually. Physicians drive 80% of the cost. So the Bush administration quickly committed 100 million, and congressional bi-partisan effort has been behind the introduction of legislation to stimulate electronic patient record keeping, or electronic health records (EHR). 

India has a high rate of industrial accidents, as evident from Table 8.7. The industrial fatality rate in India is currently estimated at 0.14 per 1000 wcxkers, which is 8 times higher than in other developing countries [25]. In 1992, ammonia gas leaking from a fertilizer plant killed about 12 workers in Panipat (fault in the suction valve). Similarly, as a result of an effluent leakage from a viscose rayon mill in Shahad, Maharashtra, 11 perscMis died due to failure of the power supply for 30 min, when the untreated effluent containing 10% sulfuric acid, zinc sulfate, s ium sulfate, and carbon disulfide (pH ca. 

The lime industry generally has a lower accident rate than quarrying. Contributory factors are likely to be the reduced use of mobile equipment and the greater size of the works — there is a correlation between accident rate and the number of people employed on site [34.8]. Tripping and falling constitute the largest category of accidents. 

Miles per transit Fundamental unit of measure for rail, truck, marine, and air enabling industry, company, or carrier accident rates to calculate a predicted number of accidents per transit. 

The outcome was that the accident rate dropped from 35.40 per 100,000 person-shifts to 8.03 in one year. This brought the colliery from worst in the regional group of 15 colheiies to best in the group, and indeed in the United Kingdom. In addition, personnel indicators, such as industrial relations climate and absence rates, improved. 

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