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Appendix A; Glossary
Pages 27-28

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... injury physical trauma to a body part that requires treatment in some form recordable injury injury that because of the kind of treatment it requires is reportable to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and is thus recorded in the OSHA 300 log recordable injury rate (RIR) number of recordable injuries per 200,000 hours worked rolling RIR 12-month moving average of the recordable injury rate lost workday case (LWC)
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... 28 Evaluation of Safety and Environmental Metrics incident event that could have resulted in an injury or property damage or both but that did not incident with serious potential incident that could have caused extensive injuries (including loss of human life) or substantial property losses or both but that did not unsafe act action by an individual that increases the risk of injury to himself or herself and/or to others unsafe act index ratio between the number of unsafe acts observed and the number of indi viduals observed unsafe condition physical, mechanical, or other condition that increases the risk of injury to individuals who are in proximity to the condition observation action, condition, incident, or event that was noted and documented by an individual or individuals during the course of a safety or environmental assessment, inspection, audit, or other safety or environmental program, whether scheduled or not metric measurement or system of measurements used to analyze and improve performance injury/incident analysis process of organizing injury or incident statistics by shared factors such as body part, injury type, time of day, task being performed, and location, for the purpose of spotting trends in occurrences leading indicator prospective metric or set of metrics that can be used to develop strategies for prevention of injuries and incidents lagging indicator retrospective metric or set of metrics that can point to a need for corrective action


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