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Activity Number: 29
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Sunday, August 3, 2008 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Health Policy Statistics
Abstract - #300494
Title: Analysis of Health and Safety Data: Near Misses and Injury-Illness Rates
Author(s): Rama Sastry*+
Companies: U.S. Department of Energy
Address: HS-32, Washington, DC, ,
Keywords: Health ; Safety ; Near Misses ; Injury Rates
Abstract:

The Department of Energy (DOE) is responsible for protecting health and safety of 130,000 workers at several sites such as Hanford, Savannah River Site, and the National Laboratories at Oak Ridge, Los Alamos, etc. The health and safety data reported by the DOE contractors is maintained by two large data bases, Occurrence Reporting Processing System (ORPS) and Computerized Accident/incident Reporting System (CAIRS). The injury-illness data are consistent with Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) reporting regulations. The objective of this paper is to present some results of the application of statistical techniques to combine the elements of the two separate data bases, for example the Near Misses data from ORPS and injury rates from CAIRS.

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