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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-... 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) (online). Washington, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention available at www.cdc.gov/ncipc/wisqars accessed on January 13, 2004. 

There are four main uses of injury statistics (1) to identify high-risk jobs or work areas, (2) to evaluate company health and safety performance, (3) to evaluate the effectiveness of hazard-abatement approaches, and (4) to identify factors related to illness and injiuy causation. An illness and injuryreporting and analysis system requires that detailed information must be collected about the characteristics of illness and injuries and their frequency and severity. The Occupational Safety and Health Act (1970) established iUness and injury reporting and recording requirements that are mandatory for aU employers, with certain exclusions such as small establishments and government agencies. Regulations have been developed to define how employers are to adhere to these requirements (BLS 1978). 

Hazards, workplace, 1168, 1171-1187 engineering controls, 1175-1176 human factors controls, 1176-1179 and illness/injury statistics, 1173-1174 improved work practices for reducing, 1181-1183... 

Facts and Figures at a Glance. May2001. National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center. Spinal Cord Injury Hope Through Research, http //www.ninds.nih.gov/health and medical/pubs/sci.htm... 

Table 2.8 Injury statistics of animals from the different super pressure of air shock waves...

Furre also challenged the validity of injury statistics as a safely indicator. His stories illustrate how statistics are subject to interpretation and manipulation. In this quote, Furre used sareasm when he talked about the so-ealled zero-level statisties . He also used strong words sueh as manipulation and eover up and eoneluded that trust in Norwegian Oil and Gas Assoeiations was low. 

Chapter 6 is titled Measuring Outcomes. It commences with additional discussion of the reliability and validity of measurements. Subjects covered are injury statistics, other statistics, behavioral and work-site observations, employee surveys, analytical equipment measures, workplace audits, unintended outcomes, and practical considerations. 

A company s injury history, both the frequency and severity of injuries, is one of the factors determining their workers compensation insurance premiums. Having a revamped safety program will drive down injury rates and, in turn, insurance premiums. But, that is only one of the costs associated with workplace injuries. Others include medical expenses for treatment of the injured and lost productivity. Below are some rather startling findings from a PBS Frontline program based on a University of Michigan Press publication, which examined workplace injury statistics for 1992. 

If you get to a safety target, for example two milUon hours, everyone gets prizes such as a sharp safety award jacket. Gain-sharing and variable pay awards are also based on having low injury statistics. Prizes and awards are behavior modification techniques called positive reinforcement. Safety consnltant Thomas Smith explains that, the research shows that positive reinforcement is as bad as negative reinforcement. 

According to the latest injury statistics released by the National Safety Council, for every one injury at work there are three home injuries (non-work related) reported. Are U.S. homes so unsafe Or are these statistics now showing the result of many years of the industrial injury-reporting fear factor Are employees taking work injuries home because of the fear factor ... 

Safety professionals should be professionals, and not generalists who accept tasks that should be allocated to other specialists in their specific fields. For the profession of safety to be respected, safety practitioners have to practice pure safety on a management level and not become manipulators of injury statistics to make the company s safety efforts look good. Much harm can be done to the image of the profession if its members do not act according to the ASSE Code of Professional Conduct. 

The organization s annual report should also feature a section on safety, health, and environmental (SHE) matters. The report should be prepared by the safety department but presented by the CEO. The report can include a safety progress report, damage, near-miss incident and injury statistics, numbers of employees trained in SHE techniques, and other relevant information. 

J.S. Young, P.E. Bums, A.M. Bowen, and R. McCutchen, Spinal Cord Injury Statistics Experience of the Regional Spinal Cord Injury Systems. National Spinal Cord Injury Data Research Center, Phoenix, 1982, p. 95. 

Analysis Analysis of injury statistics Root causes. investigadon... 

Non-fatal injury statistics from 1996/97 for general construction cannot be compared directly with earlier years due to the introduction of revised injury reporting requirements (RIDDOR 95) in 1996. 

Experience Rating. From economic theory the more responsive WC premiums are to changing safety levels the more dramatically firms will expand their safety efforts as WC benefits rise. In practice, insurance companies combine injury statistics for all workers in an industrial class to determine the so-called manual rate for WC coverage. For small firms the product of each worker s wage rate and the manual rate for his or her industrial class summed over all workers determines the firm s total WC insurance premium. As firm size rises insurers pay less attention to the average experience of the industrial... 

NWISP (2009) National Work Injury Statistics Program Summary Table of Accepted Time-Loss Injuries/Diseases and Fatalities by Jurisdiction (available online at http //www.awcbc.org/en/nationalworkinjuriesstatisticsprogramnwisp.asp ... 

The committee was unable to collect reliable injury statistics across the different industries to compare and illustrate common or unique hazards. 

Focus on High Severity Cases Severity strategies focus on potential accidents that lead to major injuries, long-term disability, serious illnesses, death, impact many people or cause major property damage. Data from national injury statistics by industry, occupation, type of work or other factors help pinpoint risks. 

MSHA requires that each mine operator submit mine accident, injury and illness reports. There is one form for each injured or ill person. Mine operators must also submit quarterly mine employment and coal production reports. They show total employee hours worked in order to compute incident and injury statistics. 

Although accident and injury statistics help measure performance at a broad level, they may not be sensitive... 

Safety award programs typically do not reinforce safe behavior on the job. As noted above, awards and incentives tend to influence employees not to report injuries. Many organizations base their awards on outcome measures (injury statistics) rather than process measures—people s compliance with safety procedures on the job (McSween, 1995, p. 15). 

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. 

Examine accident and injury statistics and set safety objectives. 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2014) Web-based injury statistics query and reporting system (WISQARS). Available at http //www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/fatal.html. 

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