Lost work days

Although the electrolytic process industries are confronted with a wide range of ha2ards, their safety record has been excellent. The U.S. Bureau of Labor has reported lost work days (injuries and illnesses) per 100 hill-time workers for the year 1990 (140). 

AR is the most common atopic disease in the United States. It affects between 9% and 24% of adults and up to 42% of children.2,3 More than 80 million Americans experience 7 or more days of nasal-ocular symptoms annually as a result of AR.3 Additionally, AR is responsible for 3.5 million lost work days and 2 million missed school days annually in the United States.4 In addition to decreased quality of life from AR symptoms, patients also suffer from disrupted sleep, resulting in fatigue, irritability, memory deficits, excessive daytime somnolence, and depression that further reduce quality of life.5... 

Workers afflicted with OA, may suffer multiple hardships including lower wages due to transfer to other jobs, reduction in job responsibility, lost work days, lack of productivity, and long term unemployment. Quality and satisfaction of life can also be affected if there is development and/or worsening of ongoing asthma, exacerbation... 

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics collects data annually regarding workplace injuries. The latest data at the time of this writing are from 2006. While these data are quite nonspecific and difficult to relate directly to the epidemiology of ocular chemical injuries, they do provide some insight into the scope of the problem. All of the following data refer to private industry and cases ofnonfatal injuries or illnesses resulting in lost work days. 

The percent distribution of lost work days in the Chemicals or Chemical Products industry segment was as follows [17] ... 

Despite some incidents, the chemical industry presents good accident statistics. A statistical survey of work accidents shows that chemistry is positioned close to the end of the list, classified by order of decreasing lost work days [2] (Table 1.1). Further, these accidents only constitute a minor part due to chemical accidents, the greatest part consisting of common accidents such as falls, cuts, and so on that can happen in any other activity. 

DuPont is one of the few. It is renowned in the industry for its ability to run plants safely and it enjoys fewer lost working days from accidents than anyone else in the industry. Several years ago, it decided to exploit that institutional skill and started a consulting business speciahzing in plant safety. Another example is Dow Intellectual Assets, a subsidiary of Dow, which has been extracting value from licenses and patents by using a multidiscipHnary team that examines patents for Hcensing opportunities. As a result, Hcensing revenues from patents have risen from USD 25 million to over USD 125 million. 

By effectively controlling psoriasis, costs to patients, lost work days, and health plan costs may be reduced. 

The lost work day frequency rate was static at 37.4 days per 200000 working hours 1996, then fell to 22.2 in 1998. 

OSHA s SAFETY PAYS program is interactive software developed by OSHA to assist employers in assessing the impact of occupational injuries and illnesses (with Lost Work Days) on their profitability. It uses a company s profit margin, the AVERAGE costs of an injury or illness, and an indirect cost multiplier to project the amount of sales a company would need to generate in order to cover those costs. 

The public perception is that the operations of the industry I chose for this inquiry, the chemical industry, are high hazard even though its average OSHA rate is commendably low. For the six companies that provided the 328 investigation reports I reviewed, the range of their OSHA recordable rates is 1.6 to 2.9. For their lost work day case rates, the range is 0.6 to 1.3. Comparable rates for private industry, overall, were 8.5 for OSHA recordables and 3.8 for lost work day cases. 

Track lost work days over the past several years to determine how many are attributable to back pain and/or iigu-ly and... 

Workplace safety is measured by only one statistic, the OSHA recordable rate. Based on this statistical yardstick, continuous process industries continue to be among the safest industries in the country and are getting safer. Many plants have celebrated working millions of hours without a lost work day accident. While all eyes are on the OSHA recordable rate, releases of hazardous materials, fires, mechanical breakdowns and near misses are not included in the safety statistics, (p. 7)... 

Lost work days - days away from work D Lost work days - days of restricted activity... 

The number of injuries, illnesses, or lost workdays related to a common exposure base of 100 full-time workers as used by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The common exposure base enables one to make accurate inter-industry comparisons, trend analysis over time, or comparisons among firms regardless of size. This rate is calculated as IR = (N/EH) X 200,000, where N is number of injuries and/or dlnesses or lost work days, EH is total hours worked by all employees during the calendar year, and 200,000 is the base for 100 full-time equivalent workers (working 40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year). 

As per 2007 Bureau of Labor sfafisfics [15], fhe incidence rate of lost-work-day injuries from slips, trips, and falls on the same levels in U.S. hospitals was 35.2 per 10,000 full-time equivalents (FTEs)—about 75% greater than that of all other private industries combined (i.e., 20.2 per 10,000 FTEs). 

Marginal 3 Could result in injury or occupational illness resulting in one or more lost work day(s), loss exceeding 10K but less than 200K, or mitigatible environmental damage without violation of law or regulation where restoration activities can be accomplished. 

Negligible 4 Could result in injury or illness not resulting in a lost work day, loss exceeding 2K but less than 10K, or minimal environmental damage not violating law or regulation. 

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. 

Reduced numbers of statements and approved claims of cement eczema have been found following the addition of ferrous sulfate to cement in Denmark and Finland (Avnstorp 1992 Roto et al. 1996). This economic benefit should be included in the calculation together with spared costs for medical support, lost working days and personal suffering of the workers developing allergic cement eczema. 

There is evidence that the appropriate authorities are responding to the scale of the problem of skin disease in the electronics industry. One study [21] showed that in the United States in 1991, the computer, electronics and scientific equipment manufacturing industries employed the largest number of occupational physicians per capita relative to occupational illness/injury/lost work days per capita. 

Among 360 construction workers in Singapore, 3 workers with allergic cement eczema, took five periods of sickness absence due to their hand eczema in 1 year. The total number of lost working days was 53 days. It was concluded that the number of workers requiring sick leave due to occupational dermatoses was low, but that those with the condition required about 2 weeks of leave. Furthermore, allergic cement eczema was the only type of occupational dermatosis causing sickness absence in this factory (Goh 1986). 

Number of injuries with lost work days ... 

Offer choices from a set of lost work day injuries and illnesses. 

Type C accident An accident that results in occupational injury or illness, which results in a lost-work day case or a restricted-duty case or damage to equipment or propaty of 25,000 to less than 250,000. The responsible division chief will appoint the investigation board. 

Besides the production indicator be the mainly, other indicators related are also part of company s management, as loss of time and missed days, for instance. The lost of time is known by some departments inside the company and is controlled by engineering department. In case of work missed days the company also controls the impact on the general production indicator, beyond the quantity of lost work days. The cost related to job mistakes and rework is partially known. The more direct indicators refer to scrap costs and the mistakes number and severity which are controlled by quality department. 

Every working day in Great Britain, at least one person is killed and over 6000 are injured as a result of work activities and about one million people take time off because of what they regard as work-related illness. In total, accidents and work-related ill health result in about 30 million lost work-days. 

Blanch, A., Torrelles, B. Salinas, J.A. 2009. Age and lost working days as a result of an occupational accident a study in a shift work rotation system. Safety Science, 47(10) 1359-1363. 

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