Review of Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) containing information that describes the short and long-term health effects, physical and chemical properties, flammability, safety hazards, and emergency response procedures in case of overexposure of products used in industry.Review of OSHA or other logs of recorded accidents that resulted in injury or near misses that did not result in injury by may present a safety hazard.Looking at injury rates by sex, age, job type.Or the rate of near misses is 1 for every 50 employees over the past year For example, the company has 1 injury resulting in medical attention every 45 days. Looking at the frequency of injury per shift, per day, and per employee.Looking at injury rates by shift (e.g., time of injury).
Looking at the cause of injury (e.g., falls, slips, body position, struck by flying object).Looking at the most common areas of the body that were injured (e.g., hands, shoulders, head, etc).Looking at the severity of injury and resulting workers compensation or disability claims and costs and the number of days the employee could not work.Looking at the most common types of injuries (e.g., burns, cuts, sprains, bruises, fractures).Variables of interest when examining injury data include:
#A number of accidents on the job leading towards disability professional
However, the information workers provide should not substitute for a professional evaluation of the workplace practices and the work environment by an industrial hygienist or ergonomist. Because of their familiarity with the worksite and work environment, workers are good sources of environmental health and safety risk information and may provide information not found in formal records (e.g., OSHA) or workers compensation claims. Inspections can be performed by a variety of individuals including workers health and safety professionals engineers external agencies, such as regulatory agencies insurance providers corporate officials or union representatives. Inspections can be conducted 1) on a regular and routine basis to identify hazards 2) following an incident or accident resulting in injury to identify cause(s) and 3) when someone at the workplace requests an inspection due to a suspicion of a health or safety hazard. This system involves collecting data from many sources including workplace inspections, measurement and evaluation of exposure, examination of workers, record keeping, and reporting of health effects and exposures for acute (when the time between exposure and disease or injury is short) or chronic conditions (e.g., resulting from repeated exposure).ĭirect observation of the work environment through a workplace inspection is an important source of data. To properly identify health risks and hazards from the work environment that may cause occupational disease or injury and institute prevention and control measures for these risks, employers can implement a system to collect, analyze, and interpret occupational disease and injury control information. Tracking injury-related data over time can show improvement in safety in the workplace. Accidents may or may not result in an injury.įor example, a shelf could collapse and fall onto someone, or the shelf could collapse and not hit anyone.Īccidents that do not result in injury are often called “near-misses.” This data can show weaknesses and areas for improvement in the workplace environment and safety policies. In addition to injuries sustained on-site, employers often collect data associated with near-accidents and near-misses. Reporting of injuries is required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) external icon for any organization with more than 10 employees. Similar to the analysis of health claims data, looking at injury and workers compensation data will allow for identifying causes of injury that should be targeted by an intervention program.
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