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Posted By seismic
In terms of accident rates per unit of time (e.g. million hours), when do such rates become meaningful? Small projects, where, say, less than 10 thousand hours are accrued, will mostly have no accidents and therefore a zero rate (good). But one accident on such a project would result in an astronomical rate of 100 accidents per million hours.
My company attempts to measure individual projects with such an accident rate, and future work for contractors is partly contingent on this. I am trying to find some academic justification for abandoning this practice for projects of less than a critical number of exposure hours.
Can anyone help me out here?
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Posted By Ron Hunter
I've never been a fan of trying to translate the "per unit time" or "by population" accident statistics as they are prepared by HSE and others for National statistics across to discrete businesses and Projects.
Sufficient I think to record and enquire as to the number of reportable, non-reportable accidents and industrial disease reports on an annual basis. Working on the basis that contractors work most of the year, these values can be contrasted against the workforce numbers of individual contractors in (MHO) a much more meaningful way.
This is the level of detail the commercial pre-qual schemes work to.
Of Course any submission with a zero/zero/zero is to be treated with some scepticism.......!
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