MEASUREMENT OF WORK ACCIDENTS

LEVEL MEASUREMENT OF WORK ACCIDENTS

Measuring the level of workplace accidents is a way to determine how big the accident in an organization or in comparison with similar organizations across industry sectors or even on a national scale. This measurement is done by comparing the number of victims to the amount of labor in a given time period.

Some of these measurements are as follows:

A. ILO STANDARDS

1. ACCIDENT Incident Rate (AIR)

AIR = number of casualties in a year / the number of hours worked in a year) X 1000

This measurement is suitable for organizations that do not keep records of working hours and the length of time and the time of accident victims handling.

Quality Management System (OHSAS ISO 18001:2007)

OHSAS ISO 18001:2007

International standard for Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems Work. Published in 2007, replacing the OHSAS 18001:1999, and is intended to manage the health and safety aspects rather than product safety.

OHSAS 18001 provides a framework for the effective management of health and safety including compliance with laws and regulations that apply to your activity and recognize the dangers that arise.


Companies that understand the importance of safety in the company is a company whose attention to employees. If the employee works with a high safety will result in the production runs smoothly. Therefore, it needs to be the importance of workplace safety.

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