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—_ _ —— plant with a FAR of 4. If this employee works a four-hour GaDAn employee works in a pet penton per yeat? 200 days per year, what is the expected deaths ) vs Shift, lays per y FAR = Nomber of Stuuties /0® Tetak hows woreed durin peru Deaths perpenen per year = (Lhe ( zeoents) ( 4 decths _ [2.240% aTns Yr h 10% hes U Three process units are respectively. a plant. The units have FARs of 0.5, 0.3 and 1.0 | a. What is the overall FAR for the plant, assuming worker exposure to all three units | simultaneously? b. Assume now that the units are far enough apart that an accident in one would not affect the workers in another. If a worker spends 20% of his time in process area 1, 40% in process area 2, and 40% in process area 3, what is his overall FAR? | | | ) FAR vs base on th of hows exposect to nds | Eypoed to all thwee puets h FAR = OS + 0.2 F190 “E aa ) Now not evpset +o all egually | 20% of time with ont (with FAR OS 40% on © “ moo wo 63 40% 6° RB we LO | = G.62 Uhaptev Vo Key — VK bwdhlow | ee 4-4) A worker is told his chances of being killed by a particular process are one in every 500 years. Should the worker be satisfied or alarmed? What is the FAR (assuming normal working hours) and the deaths per person per year? What should his chances be, assuming an average chemical plant? | Assome norma\ wortiny schedule TS Ohm per weet: SO wets per year death year wee = 1x107® deeth | SOOyears * Fees) ( 40 hes i ne FAR = deaths = death foo = l0Odeaths 1o&hr > Voehe * feo 10 She 8, FAR = 100 | Nes! the employee ought to be a alavmedt, — Typrcatl cher ak Plant FRR = Adeaths Jot hys Z.osid® deaths Peron Y Desths = ft deaths (2: (222°) Z Person ye Tothrs)\ week, Ye For Averaye chemrad plant Fags G qdeths , gone , sowerts 2 [Gio 10> decths 1oehrs “Week an “Person year | a —— | years per death = asl | IZSOO yeur/yugh | ne, changes of bens killed one m every I2%SOOyecas VMaptéw Vo} ey VE Ludlow = Consider Example 1-4. How many hours must be traveled by car for each hour of rock climbing to make the risks of fatality by car equal to the risk of fatality by rock climbing? | ~ | Fron Examele + Travelin) by cay = S% | Roce clinbrns = A000 Fig = deaths ToB hrs exposed 4000 deaths TOS hes Lek clomabrry " | SF eth 108 hes of dviving hr of Rock climbing the airline industry claims commercial airline transport has fewer deaths per mile than any other means of transportation. Do the accident statistics support this claim? In 1984 the airline industry posted four deaths per ten-million passenger miles. What | additional information is required to compute a FAR? a fatality rate? | Arclines have Fewest deaths per passenger mile, BUT, | due to the high rate of Speed of fe awevett , many miles ave accumulated. From table 1,4 FAR for: Care oF breyele = Th | ae = 740 | motucyele = & 60 | Ts, on a per_hovr basts Travelling by @ plane 1s | 240 = 42 ov apprommate 44, times more dangerous | then traselliy by car. | Cover)

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