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Appendix B: Safety and Environmental Metrics Employed by Private Companies Surveyed for This Report
Pages 80-83

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From page 80...
... Company injury or Personal safety Number of RIs per number Lagging RMTC, RWC, and DAWC (all OSHA illness rate of work hours × 200,000 definitions) Near miss Personal/environmental/ Number of unsafe Leading Can identify unsafe conditions, safety transportation/process conditions or events that incidents that could have been more serious safety almost injured someone in different circumstances, etc.
From page 81...
... per 200,000 work hours DAWC count Personal safety Number of DAWCs Lagging DAWC rate Personal safety Number of DAWC per Lagging 200,000 work hours Loss of primary Personal safety Number of LOPCs Lagging For example, leaks, breaks, and spills containment (LOPC) count Severe LOPC Personal/environmental/ Number of Category 1, 1A, Lagging Category 1 is any loss of primary (Categories 1,1A, and process safety and 2A LOPCs containment resulting in the release of 2A)
From page 82...
... MVA rate Transportation Number of MVAs per Lagging Includes all miles driven from company million miles driven owned, leased, or rented vehicles and miles driven on company business from personal vehicles Number of preventable Transportation Number of preventable Lagging accidents or number of product-carrying vehicle preventable accidents per accidents or a rate based unit time or distance on this number Number of high-severity Transportation Number of high-severity Lagging accidents or number of product-carrying vehicle high-severity accidents accidents or a rate based per unit time or distance on this number Number of rollovers/ Transportation Number of product- Lagging rollover rate carrying vehicle rollovers or a rate based on this number Energy intensity Environmental British thermal units per Lagging pound production Greenhouse gas (GHG) Environmental Quantity of carbon dioxide Lagging energy efficiency (CO2)
From page 83...
... Kyoto GHGs as CO2- Environmental Pounds of CO2-equivalent Lagging equivalent intensity per pound production Assessment compliance Personal/environmental/ Assigned grade to Leading Commonly understood measure for performance transportation/process each area reviewed in assessing improvement in performance safety assessment Percent of safety alerts Personal/environmental/ Percent completion by Leading Drives implementation of lessons learned completed transportation/process facilities covered by alerts from safety incidents safety Number of potential Environmental Internally reported Leading Proactive measure of effectiveness of environmental potential environmental environmental program noncompliances noncompliances per month Number of significant Environmental Spills per unit time Lagging environmental spills Toxic release inventory Environmental Number of releases per Lagging on site releases unit time NOTE: RCI, root cause investigation; OSHA, Occupational Safety and Health Administration; RMTC, reportable medical treatment case; RWC, restricted work case; DAWC, days away from work case; LOPC, loss of primary containment; BBP, behavior-based process; ES&H, employee safety and health; RI, recordable injury; GHG, greenhouse gas; GEI, greenhouse gas emissions. SOURCE: Data provided by Corning, Dow Chemical, Motorola, and Praxair.


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