Posted By John Fitzmaurice Does anyone know where I could find current OSHA incident rate statistics used ideally in the heavlyift or construction industry that I can use as a benchmark against my own figures.

Posted By Ciaran McAleenan John The U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, keep and publish the injuries, illness and fatalities data. You will find them at the following link; http://www.bls.gov/iif/home.htm Best wishes Ciaran

Posted By Jay Joshi Whereas it is one thing to benchmark versus OSHA requirements, OSHA requirement for "Medical Treatment" can skew your OSHA Recordable Rates and there is a potential for becoming extremely risk averse due to this. OSHA "Medical treatment case" is anything beyond "First Aid" and what constitutes First Aid is prescribed. For example, a cut on the arm that required one stitch or use of medical super-glue, even if the injured person returned to their normal work on the same day and there was no absence at all due to the injury would be an OSHA recordable under "medical Treatment". I know of organisations where the number of OSHA recordables is used as a Performance Indicator for determining the Health and Safety component of the annual "Bonus". Due to this they are extremely risk averse in that they do not risk employees participating in some team-building activities that involves physical endurance etc for the fear a minor first aid can escalate to medical treatment. Last, but not least, such indicators are lagging/reactive performance indicators. Regulators and Enforcement bodies did not compile the recording/reporting criteria to be used as key performance indicators for organisation to benchmark against, but as a means of compiling data for trends, strategic planning and targeting enforcement.