Records safety performance

This category of injury is used because this is the degree of injury that is mostly recognized in the safety profession. This injury classification is what safety campaigns, safety records, safety performance measurement, safety comparisons, safety competitions, safety recognition schemes, etc., recognize as being the accepted measurement of safety. If less than 1 percent of serious injuries are caused by accidents, safety efforts should not be focused only on them. More effort should be directed at... 

Are records of safety performance maintained, analyzed and communicated to all employees ... 

Officially, OSHA will hold the direct supervisor responsible for the safety of its workers. However, OSHA can also fine and hold responsible the Owner for not having made sure the contractor is working safely. OSHA certainly has the authority to shut down a work site if the safety record warrants it. This is not in the best interest of anyone and therefore demands excellent safety performance during construction. 

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). 

Heinrich law reflects a general rule between the frequency and the severity of accident, and also illustrates the randomness of accident severity or the severity lying on chance factors. Therefore, it s very difficult to control accident severity. In order to prevent major accidents, we should go all out to prevent accident occurrence, especially, attach great importance to near misses and other small accident records and reports (Wu Xu 2002). Because of small accident causing little loss, it is often easily overlooked, but it is actually a favorable indicator of the safety performance (Yu Wang 2004), which can provide comprehensive and timely feedback for safety management. 

The OSHA PSM contractor element requires that employers obtain and evaluate information regarding the contract employer s safety performance and programs. Many employers use this as an opportunity to screen contractors and only hire and use contractors with safety performance records that meet their minimum criteria. 

Intel employees continue to improve on their world-class safety performance. OSHA recordable injuries have decreased an average of 30 percent each of the last five years. 

Despite the lowest injury and illness rate in the semiconductor industry — and possibly the lowest rates in any industry — we continue to improve our illness and injury performance. In 2001, we reduced our already world-class OSHA recordable rate by an additional 33% to 0.19 injiuies per 100 employees. Said another way, Intel s safety performance is about 4,500% better than that of the average U.S. manufacturing company. [Editorial note Intel s Lost-Day case rate in 2001 was 0.04, which is truly superior.]... 

Measurement is a prerequisite for control and prediction. The main function of a measure of safety performance is to reveal the level of safety effectiveness. A second purpose is to provide continuous information concerning the safety state. Measures of safety performance must help prevent, not just record, incidents. They must indicate where hazards-ielated incidents will likely occur and provide guidelines concerning the appropriate preventive initiatives. 

The actuarial premises on which the workers compensation experience rating system was developed give credibility to OSHA incident recordable and lost workday case rates as measures, and predictors, of safety performance, with these qualifications The statistical base (the hours worked) on which the records are developed has to be large enough and low probability-severe outcome risks may not be encompassed within the experience base. 

Do the OSHA statistics—the recordable case rate and the lost workday case rate —for an exposure of 1,000,000 hours have a confidence level of, say, 68.27%, as measures of the quality of safety performance An entity of this size would more than likely purchase workers compensation insurance and have an experience modification as an additional measure. 

I Each motor carrier must maintain records relating to the investigation of the safety performance history of a new or prospective driver. 

The previous employer and its agents and insm ers must all take precautions to protect the driver safety performance history records from disclosime to any person not directly involved in forwarding the records. 

Correcting Erroneous Information — A driver wishing to correct erroneous information in his/her safety performance history records must send the request for correction to the previous employer that provided the records to the prospective employer. 

If the previous employer corrects and forwards the data as requested, that employer must also retain the corrected information as part of the driver s safety performance history record and provide it to subsequent prospective employers when requests for... 

If a driver wishes to rebut information in records received he/she must send the rebuttal to the previous employer with instructions to include the rebuttal in that driver s safety performance history. 

A previous employer must maintain a record of each request and response dealing with a driver s safety performance history. The record must include the date, the party to whom the information was released, and a summary of what was provided. This information must be retained for 1 year. 

The quantitative assessment of the inherent safety performance in altemative hydrogen distribution chains was performed. An innovative method, based on the evaluation of a set of KPIs, was used in the analysis. The method evaluates the severity of potential accidents and the recorded safety scores of process equipment. The method is made suitable for the analysis of production and supply chains, including the assessment of transport units and vehicles. Three main issues emerged from the analysis of the reference hydrogen chain i) the importance of reducing the severity of... 

None of our interview respondents had first-hand experience working at smaller carriers, but some had interacted with smaller carriers as part of their jobs e.g., with their airlines connection partners. In general, there was a consensus that safety performance was probably not vastly different at smaller carriers, but that the smaller operators are probably not as safe on average as the major carriers, because fewer resources are available. However, two respondents noted that some small airlines have safety records just as good as those of the major carriers. One respondent specifically pointed out that different challenges require different management approaches, but that with suitable management, small airlines can still achieve top performance. 

Taken together, these facts suggest that the safety performance of the small new entrants may not be substantially worse than the performance that would have been experienced by Class I railroads had these railroads maintained short-haul operations. This supposition raises the question of why the smaller firms, with presumably lower financial resources, have been able to maintain a reasonable safety record. A part of the answer (Savage, 1998, pg. 119) is that the substantial reduction in employment by Class I... 

The driver must arrange to pick up or receive the records within 30 days of the prospective employer making them available. Once a driver reviews his/her safety performance history data, errors may need to be corrected. To accomplish this, drivers must send a request for the correction to the previous employer (the one that provided the records to the prospective employer). The rules do not specify the form or manner for this request. 

This new regulation will require motor carriers to conduct background investigations on all new applicants. Each motor carrier must maintain records relating to the investigation into the safety performance history of a new or prospective driver pursuant to paragraphs (d) and (e) of 391.23. This file must be maintained in a secure location with controlled access. 

The record must include the previous employer s name and address, the date the previous employer was contacted, and the information received about the driver from the previous employer. Failures to contact a previous employer, or failure of them to provide the required safety performance history information, must be documented. 

There has been some confusion on this topic (the confidentiality of the driver BASIC Measures and Scores) because of a separate program that is also becoming active in 2010, the Driver Pre-employment Screening Program (PSP). The PSP will allow carriers to view a driver s safety performance data that the FMCSA has on file for the driver (record of roadside... 

SIDE 1 SAFETY PERFORMANCE HISTORY RECORDS REQUEST... 

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