Citation

No Author(s) Listed. Safety Health 2006; 174(4): 22-23.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, U.S. National Safety Council)

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Abstract

The Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has proposed a different approach to measuring workplace safety, Injuries and Fatalities Relative to Output, pointing the use of output as a better measurement gauge to measure injuries and fatalities than the use of employment. The approach would measure fatality and injury by labor outputs or the amount of production generated by the workers rather than by labor inputs. Since the fatality counts and rates vary substantially across industry groups, viewing data on outputs might offer a view of an industry's riskiness at a particular point in time that can allow tracking the future evolution of the industrial distribution of the riskiness of jobs. Considering the labor inputs as important gauges of economic progress, the trial of the proposed approach based on labor outputs for accounting of safety and health statistics is still debatable.

Language: en