- 1). Review your payroll records to determine the total number of employee hours worked for the past year. This number should include all workers, full-time and part-time, as well as temporary contract workers and any seasonal workers.
- 2). Review the information from your OSHA Form 300 records to determine the number of recordable injury and illness days within the last year. Most businesses with 10 or more full-time employees are required by OSHA regulations to use OSHA Form 300 or otherwise keep a log of employee injuries and illnesses. Using your Form 300 records you can determine the number of recordable injury and illness days within the last year by counting the entries recorded for columns (G) Death, (H) Days away from work, (I) Job transfer or restriction, and (J) Other recordable cases.
- 3). Divide the total number of injuries and illnesses determined in step 2 by the total number of employee hours in step 1.
- 4). Multiply the result found in step 3 by 200,000, which is the standard base set by OSHA for calculating injury rates. The 200,000 figure represents the total number of hours worked by 100 employees in one year, based upon 50 work weeks at 40 hours per week. This final result is the injury rate for your business.
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