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1. Which Accident and Loss Statistics method gives a better representation

of worker accidents? Why?
Osha ir

2. Based on the following table, answer the questions that follow.

Assume total hours worked is 400 000 hours.

i. What is the fatality rate if the total population in a coal mining

industry is 2564?
- 1986 40/2564 1990 7.3/2564
ii. What is the OSHA incident rate in 1985 for the agriculture
industry? The accident rate is 50% higher than the rate in 1998.
0.89 = x × 200000
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iii. What is FAR in 1986 for paper if half of accidents results to death?
The OSHA incident rate for that year is the same as the previous
year.
iv. How many cases of injuries and deaths occurred in 1998 for the
motor vehicles industry?
v. The fatality rate for the steel industry with 5362 workers in 1990
is 3.73 x 10-4. What is its FAR?
vi. If 20% of accidents in food industry in 1998 results in lost
workdays. What is the total accidents occurred that year?
vii. Based on OSHA incident rate, which industry is unsuccessful in
implementing its safety program?
viii. Which industry is the most successful in its safety program?
ix. Which industry is the safest? What do you think make it the safety
industry?
x. Which is the most unsafe industry? What should be done to
improve this situation?

3. Three process units are in a plant. The units have FARS of 0.5, 0.3 and
1.0 respectively.

i. What is the overall FAR for this plant, assuming worker exposure
to all three units simultaneously?
ii. 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?
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