Total case incident rate

To qualify for the Star designation, an entity must show that its 3-year illness and injury Total Case Incidence Rate (TCIR) and its 3-year Days Away from Work, Restricted Work Activity, and Job Transfer Rate (DART) fall below the entity s industry average. That suggests exclusivity and deserved recognition for those companies which have superior safety and health management systems and stellar performance. 

Site management must maintain copies of the TCIR (total case incident rate) and DART (three year day away, restricted, and/or transfer case incident) rate data for all applicable contractors based on hours worked at the site.. .. 

Using selected data such as reduction of the total case incident rate (TCIR), or workers compensation experience modification rate (EMR), etc. does not add value to an organization, as described in Lesson Learned 3. 

It is perceived as too time consuming. If the traditional methods of safety program success are used with dependence on compliance data such as injury recordahility (total case incident rate (TCIR)) and loss events are low, then the attitude may he we don t need to do this , even if associated risk is high. 

Trailing Indicator A safety measure that is downstream of incidents. Trailing indicators are often measures of failure, such as total case incident rate (TCIR), lost workday case incident rate (LWCIR), and incurred workers compensation costs. A trailing indicator is an outcome measure and they are not diagnostic they do not tell you what part of the system is broken. 

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Total Recordable Rate (sometimes referred to as Total Recordable Incident Rate [TRIR]) using the number of OSHA recordable injury and illness cases. The TRC is the total of all recordable injury and illness cases. This includes cases that involve days away from work, job transfer or restriction, and other recordable cases from the OSHA s Form 300 multiplied by 200,000 and then divided by the number of employee hours worked. 

The OSHA incidence rate is based on cases per 100 worker years. A worker year is assumed to contain 2000 hours (50 work weeks/year X 40 hours/week). The OSHA incidence rate is therefore based on 200,000 hours of worker exposure to a hazard. The OSHA incidence rate is calculated from the number of occupational injuries and illnesses and the total number of employee hours worked during the applicable period. The following equation is used ... 

Recognizing that the chemical industry is safe, why is there so much concern about chemical plant safety The concern has to do with the industry s potential for many deaths, as, for example, in the Bhopal, India, tragedy. Accident statistics do not include information on the total number of deaths from a single incident. Accident statistics can be somewhat misleading in this respect. For example, consider two separate chemical plants. Both plants have a probability of explosion and complete devastation once every 1000 years. The first plant employs a single operator. When the plant explodes, the operator is the sole fatality. The second plant employs 10 operators. When this plant explodes all 10 operators succumb. In both cases the FAR and OSHA incidence rate are the same the second accident kills more people, but there are a correspondingly larger number of exposed hours. In both cases the risk taken by an individual operator is the same.4... 

The syndrome of angina pectoris is reported to occur with an average annual incidence rate (number of new cases per time period per total... 

National Poi.son Center in Taiwan indicate that the fatality rate is much higher in Taiwan than in most Western countries, with 5.65% of all poisoning exposure.s resulting in death. There were 6872 cases of pesticide intoxication among 223,436 total cases of various intoxications from 1985 to 1993 (Tabic 6>, and these accounted for approximately 22-30% of the total incidences, from 1991 to 1996. The incidence of pesticide poisoning gradually declined during this time. 

Indemnity Case Rate, which is a negative metric providing the rate of all workers compensation cases that involve lost time payments per 100 full time employees per year. It may be indicative of the company s basic prevention and reduction efforts in minimizing more serious lost time case incidence and severity. It relates closely to OSHA s DART or rate of injuries and illnesses resulting in days away from work, restricted work activity, and/or job transfer. According to Italian National Standards UNI 7249 (UNI 2007) further index rates are introduced, like incidence index of occurred accidents, defined as rate of occurred accidents per 1.000 workers, frequency index (rate of occurred accidents per 1.000.000 hours worked), severity index of accidents, which represents 1000 times total number of lost days per hours worked. 

You can compute an occupational injury and illness incidence rate for all recordable cases or for cases that involved days away from work for your firm quickly and easily. The formula requires that you follow instructions in paragraph (a) below for the total recordable cases or those in paragraph (b) for cases that involved days away from work, and for both rates the instructions in paragraph (c). 

You can use the same formula to calculate incidence rates for other variables sucb as cases involving restricted work activity (column (1) on Form 300A), cases involving skin disorders (column (M-2) on Form 300A), etc. Just substitute the appropriate total for these cases, from Form 300A, into the formula in place of the total number of injuries and illnesses. 

In a population study of occupational contact dermatitis (OCD) amongst bakers, confectioners and cooks, Tacke et al. (1995) investigated all proven cases during a 3-year period in a total population of 32,559 Bavarian workers and found an incidence rate... 

From 1973 to 2001, the occupational injury and illness rate for private industry dropped 50%—from 11.3 to 5.7. In the same period, the incidence rate for Total Lost Workday Cases decreased 18%—from 3.4 to 2.8. 

The rate of nonfatal occupational injuries in the chemical manufacturing sector was 2.1 cases per 100 workers, or 18,100 total cases. Chemical skin injuries would be predicted to be included in the incidence rate for skin diseases and disorders. In 2009, for all industries including state and local governments, this rate was 3.4 per 10,000 fulltime workers. 

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