Hello, I'm trying to find the above info to assist a client in an epidemiological study. I'm having zero success, anyone able to point me in the right direction?

I would imagine its "accident frequency rate" however I dont think issues related to dermatitis would be classed as accidents and would be more related to occupational health statistics.

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Sorry, I missed this, what do you mean? Yes, and with respect to the public I wasn't asking them I was asking fellow professionals that may have the knowledge to assist.

Epidemiological Analysis does not just cover occupational health, it can be applied to anything which requires the study of data. The AFR is what I needed and has given me the data to assist my client.

Good. I am happy that you have found the information you required. Have a nice day !!

Seeing as this thread has been kicked a little sideways. Maybe you abbreviation haters could assist myself and other forum users. Should we now type the following out in full? HASAW COSHH LOLER PUWER ACOP HSG CAR etc or any other abbreviation? H&S (Health and Safety) is full of abbreviations and they are recognised by most on here. If I post requesting assistance with MVR and someone doesn't know what it means, then it is likely that that person does not have the required knowledge to assist me or anyone else with a query. If they then go on to find out what it means then they have learnt something new - where is the harm in that, and possibly they may look further into it and be able to add it to their CPD (Am I allowed to use that?)

Lots of Love? ;-)

WOW... someone has thrown their toys out of the pram.....

Is this a Friday thread?? lol I work in the Motor Vehicle Trade and would not have automatically thought that was what you meant. In fact, asking colleagues about MVR drew blank faces. The use of abbreviations should be carefully considered - Jake hit the nail on the head.

On a minor point (perhaps another metaphorical toy to be thrown out of or into the pram!) please could people desist from confusing abbreviations with acronyms? Abbreviations comprise shortened versions of a word, e.g. "prof" for professor, or a set of letters derived from the initial letters of two or more words or names, e.g. "HSE" for Health & Safety Executive, and "TTFN" as used above by TFCSM (evidently another abbreviation!) at #4. (To be really precise/extra-pedantic, an abbreviation derived from initial letters is an initialism.) An acronym is an abbreviation which forms a recognisable/sayable word e.g. 'SWORD' for Surveillance of Work-related & Occupational Respiratory Disease. As for MVR, my earlier interpretation of it stemmed from my time with HSE and seeing it commonly used as the activity abbreviation for motor vehicle repair garages. Otherwise I risked finding other interpretations, either inspired or plain wacky, such as Mechanical Vapour Recompression, Multimodal Virtual Reality, Microscopic Vasectomy Reversal, Manfred Von Richthofen (probably the first time that he's graced the pages of this forum), Mesenteric Vascular Resistance, mean ventricular rate, measles vaccination rate, Mitral Valve Reconstruction, Maximum Vibration Reduction, Manufacturing Validation Review and Magmas & Volcanic Rocks ! :-) TFCSM - The digressive responses your thread has reaped so far aren't providing the information you seek. However, at least they're helping to keep your thread near the top of forum listing page 1 where more people are likely to see it!