TRIR Calculation gives insight into your company’s past safety performance, it is a must-know for Safety professionals.
TRIR means – Total Recordable Incident Rate. It is a lagging indicator used to quantify an organization’s safety performance. It includes all fatalities, lost time injuries, restricted work cases, cases of substitute work due to injury, and medical treatment cases by medical professionals; It does not include any first aid injury.
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What are Recordable Incidents
Under OSHA record-keeping standards, as of January 1, 2015, incidents that must be recorded include:
- All work-related fatalities
- All work-related in-patient hospitalizations of one or more employees
- All work-related amputations
- All work-related losses of an eye
- All work-related injuries and illnesses that result in days away from work, restricted work or transfer to another job, loss of consciousness, or medical treatment beyond first aid.
- Significant work-related injuries or illnesses diagnosed by a physician or other licensed healthcare professional, even if it does not result in death, days away from work, restricted work or job transfer, medical treatment beyond first aid, or loss of consciousness.
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Importance of TRIR Calculation
- TRIR gives you direct insight into your company’s past safety performance. If your TRIR scores are poor, it may lead to an uptick in surprise OSHA inspections and penalties. In addition, OSHA may increase its oversight of your company’s EHS programs.
- Your insurance company may use TRIR data to determine your premiums. The higher your recordable incident rate, the more you could be paying for insurance.
- Prospective employees may investigate your company’s safety performance, including TRIR scores. A high TRIR could signal a company’s lack of focus on employee safety and become a potential barrier to talent sourcing.
- Companies considering you as a vendor may be put off by a high TRIR score. They may see a business with a lower TRIR score as more favorable because it’s a testament to their safety record.
Given its impact across multiple channels of your business, it’s important you not only understand how to calculate your TRIR but also how to keep this score as low as possible.
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How to calculate TRIR:
TRIR is calculated by multiplying the number of recordable cases by 200,000 and then dividing that number by the number of manhours at the company.
For instance:
- If the total recordable cases = 20
- The number of hours worked (Manhour) = 100,000
TRIR calculation will follow thus:
(20 x 200,000)/100,000 = 40
A perfect TRIR score is zero, which means that there are no OSHA recordable incidents and a good TRIR is 3.0 or lower. High TRIR shows poor safety performance; it is important to keep your organization’s TRIR as low as possible.
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