Occupational injuries reports

Bull, N., Riise, T, Moen, B.E., 2001. Mechanisms of occupational injuries reported to insurance companies in Norway from 1991 to 1996. American journal of Industrial Medicine 39, 312-319. 

Additional data that can be included in the report are the name of the injured employee, medical costs, type of injury, and the name of the supervisor. Quarterly reports on vehicle accidents should include a comparison between the current and the previous year. The statistics should include the number of preventable, non-preventable, and total accidents by department. Reports should be circulated to management and the entire supervisory force. In addition, the reports can be used at monthly safety meetings. Smaller utilities may not have sufficient data to publish reports as frequently as every three months other techniques can be used to bring the information to the attention of the employee group. Specific records and reports include employee accident records, occupational injury reports, vehicle accident reports, and public injury reports. 

American Petroleum Institute (API), Summary of Occupational Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities in the Petroleum Industry, (Annual Report), API, Washington, D.C. 

CFR 1904, Recording and Reporting Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Effective January 1, 2002 The US OSHA website for recordkeeping revisions is http //www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/index.html... 

The 1993 Annual Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses from the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 110 cases of dermatitis attributed to calcium hydroxide (and other calcium oxides) exposure the skin disorders resulted in a median of 9 days away from work, with 27% having more than 20 days away from work. ... 

D. F. Huelke, W. G. Grabb, and R. O. Dingman, Automobile Occupant Injuries from Striking the Windshield, Report No. Bio-5, Highway Safety Research Institute, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1967. 

Data on fatal work injuries are from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI), 1995. This program, which has collected occupational fatality data nationwide since 1992, uses diverse data sources to identify, verify, and profile fatal work injuries. Information about each workplace fatality (occupation and other worker characteristics, equipment being used, and circumstances of the event) is obtained by cross-referencing source documents, such as death certificates, workers compensation records, and reports to Federal and State agencies. This method assures counts are as complete and accurate as possible. 

Source. U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, in cooperation with state, New York City, District of Columbia, and federal agencies, and reported in the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, 2001. 

When reports of occupational injury or illness occur within a particular Member State resulting in a need for stringent national regulatory controls ... 

Metrics should relate to the elements of the process safety system. Poorly selected metrics that do not specifically relate to the execution of process safety elements will not provide an accurate evaluation of process safety system performance. Occupational injury and illness reporting rates are sometimes used to judge overall safety performance, and this metric does track the incidence of employee injuries quite well. However, this rate does not reflect the effectiveness of the process safety system. Occupational safety is quite important to the health and well-being of employees, but the metrics involved in assessing the occupational safety performance are not appropriate for process safety system evaluation the detailed elements of a process safety program differ markedly fl-om an occupational safety program (as discussed in Chapter 3). 

Occupational injury and illness recording and reporting requirements. Final Rule. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Fed Reg 2001 66 5916-6135. 

Downside reports on balance the report does give the impression that the downside is being reported. The CEO s report states that 1999 was not one of our better years , and identifies the number of vehicle accidents and occupational injuries as being areas of particular concern. During 1999 there was one major incident, although its nature and impact are not reported. 

Several case reports described exposure of individuals to ammonia liquid and/or gas that resulted in cutaneous bums (Amshel et al. 2000 da Fonseca et al. 1998 George et al. 2000 Kerstein et al. 2001 Latenser and Lucktong 2000 Leduc et al. 1992 Rosenbaum et al. 1998 Weiser and Mackenroth 1989). All exposures were occupationally related. Total body surface area burned ranged from 14 to 45% and most had at least small areas of fiill-thickness bums that required skin grafting. A summary of 12 case reports of liquid anhydrous ammonia injuries reported a range of percent body surface area burned of... 

An International Labour Organization report of 1996 draws attention to dangers in the agricultural sector, where 14% of all known occupational injuries and 10% of all fatal injuries are caused by pesticides. 

Ongoing Research. In terms of ongoing surveillance, the California Department of Food and Agriculture reviews annually all Doctor s First Reports of Worker Injury which are required to be submitted by physicians that treat any occupationally related illness or injury. In 1977, more than 1.5 million occupational illness and injury reports were submitted from the California workforce of more than 12 million workers. Of these 1,531 cases were classified as "probably" related to pesticide exposure. 

The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH 1997) states that musculoskeletal disorders, which include disorders of the back, trunk, upper extremity, neck, and lower extremity are one of the 10 leading work-related illnesses and injuries in the United States. Praemer et al, (1992) report that work-related upper-extremity disorders (WUEDs), which are formally defined by the Biureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) as cumulative trauma illnesses, account for 11.0 % of aU work-related musculoskeletal disorders (illnesses). For comparison, occupational low-back disorders account for more than 51.0% of aU WRMDs. According to BLS (1995), the cumulative trauma illnesses of upper extremity accounted for more than 60% of the occupational illnesses reported in 1993. These work-related illnesses, which include hearing impairments due to occupational noise exposure, represent 6.0% of aU reportable work-related injuries and illnesses (Marras 1996). 

As reviewed by Karwowski and Marras (1997), work-related musculoskeletal disorders currently account for one-third of aU occupational injuries and illnesses reported to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) by employers every year. These disorders thus constitute the largest job-related injury and illness problem in the United States today. According to OSHA (1999), in 1997 employers reported a total of 626,000 lost workday disorders to the BLS, and these disorders accounted for 1 of every 3 spent for workers compensation in that year. Employers pay more than 15-20 billion in workers compensation costs for these disorders every year, and other expenses associated with MSDs may increase this total to 45-54 billion a year. 

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). 

Based on an analysis of construction-related accidents in Kuwait city during 1996-2007, Al-Humaidi and Tan (2010) found that falls are the major type of accident (33 %) followed by being crushed or struck by a falling object (25 %), and then by use or misuse of tools (18%). Furthermore, these authors reported that almost 83 % of the victims of constmetion accidents in Kuwait sustain permanent disabilities. For United Arab Emirates (UAE), 51 % of the occupational injuries are due to falls, 15 % are due to falling objects, 11 % are due to powered machines, and 6% are due to bitms (Barss et al. 2009). 

In the four decades since the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act) was signed into law, workplace deaths and reported occupational injuries have dropped by more than 60 percent. Yet the nation s workers continue to face an unacceptable number of work-related deaths, injuries and illnesses, most of them preventable ... 

At the same time, these programs will help employers avoid the substantial cost impacts and business disruptions that accompany occupational injuries, illnesses and deaths. One widely-cited source regarding estimates of the magnitude of these costs is the Liberty Mutual Research Institute, which reports the direct cost of the most disabling workplace injuries in 2008 to be 53 billion (Liberty Mutual Research Institute 2010). Another source, the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI), estimates the annual workers compensation benefits paid for all compensable injuries and illnesses in 2009 at 58 billion (National Academy of Social Insurance 2011). NASI further reports the total costs paid by employers for workers compensation increased from 60 billion in 2000 to 74 billion in 2009. 

Part 1904 Recording and Reporting Occupational Injuries and Illness... 

Table 4 in the BLS report is titled Number of Nonfatal Occupational Injuries and Illnesses Involving Days Away from Work by Selected Injury or Illness Characteristics and Industry Division, 2000. Lor private industry as a whole, strains and sprains, carpal tunnel syndrome, and tendonitis were 46.3% of total cases. Similar figures are commonly expressed. Lor example. Dr. Lranklin Mirer, Director of the UAW Health and Safety Department, says that for about 700,000 auto workers, over 50% of all incidents reported are musculoskeletal. And the costs for musculoskeletal injuries tend to ran high, especially for serious back injuries. 

The United States Department of Labor—Bureaus of Labor Statistics April 10, 2002 report USDL 02-196 is designated as Lost-Worktime Injuries Characteristics and Resulting Time Away from Work, 2000. Table 4 is titled Number of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses involving days away from work by selected injury and illness characteristics and industry division, 2000. One of the categories in the listing of Event(s) or exposure(s) leading to injury or illness is Exposure to harmful substances. Of the 1,477,800 injuries and illnesses covered in Table 4, 69,100 are in the Exposure to harmful substances category. That s 4.7% of the total. 

Part 1904 of the CFR deals with the recording and reporting of occupational injuries and illnesses. Part 1910, in addition to Standards related to a number of specific chemical agents, contains Standards covering the following subjects ... 

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