Accident Severity Rate Confusion: Should First Aid Delays Count as Lost Time?

I have a question regarding the severity rate of an accident. In a first aid case, employees/workers took 15-20 minutes for first aid treatment. Should this type of lost time be considered compulsory in calculating the number of man-days lost? Or should we only consider lost time for reportable accidents?

Thank you.

No need to count lost time like 20 minutes when calculating the severity rate. You need to count if at least a day is lost due to an accident. It is not that you need to take only reportable accidents' lost days into account. If the victim resumes duty after 48 hours, it is a reportable case. Non-reportable incidents, even causing one day of leave for the victim, should be calculated for severity rate considerations.

Hope this information helps.

Mr. Dipil has given a short and simple explanation to you. I hope you understand it now. If not, let's take a look at the formula below:

Severity Rate

The severity rate is a calculation that gives a company an average of the number of lost days per recordable incident. Please note that very few companies use the severity rate as a calculation, as it only provides an average. The calculation is made by dividing the total number of lost work days by the total number of recordable incidents.

Total number of lost work days
SR = ----------------------------------------------
Total number of recordable incidents

Using our previous company as an example, there were 5 lost work days and two recordable incidents. So, the severity rate calculation would look like this:

5
SR = ------
2

SR = 2.5

What is now known is that for every recordable incident at the company, an average of 2.5 days will be lost due to those work-related injuries and illnesses.

I hope I have explained clearly.

Keep on sharing.

Dear Raghu, we are not using the formula you mentioned for calculating the Severity Rate (SR) in India. Please go through the link in our earlier thread: https://www.citehr.com/340743-rate-a...man-hours.html

Regards.

We calculate the SR and FR in ppm of man-hours worked. Most Indian companies calculate it the same way.

Thanks & Regards,
Sudhir

On that formula, should we take the lost time of contract labor into account? If not, then we do not have to count the number of man-hours worked by contractual labor. Kindly suggest to me.

I have one confusion. How can I calculate the number of man-days lost? In our organization, accidents happen in minor cases, so the person does not take leave for the accident. Please suggest what I should do?

Thanks & Regards,
Manoj Parihar

In all this confusion clearing, let me also ask something: is the Severity Rate and Severity Index the same?

Regards,
Hansa

Please go through the definitions mentioned below. I hope they will clarify your doubts. If not, please see the attached PDF, which I extracted from the "Process Safety" document.

Severity Rate

The severity rate is a calculation that gives a company an average of the number of lost days per recordable incident. Please note that very few companies use the severity rate as a calculation, as it only provides an average. The calculation is made by dividing the total number of lost workdays by the total number of recordable incidents.

Severity Index

The severity index calculations include a category for "Community/Environmental" impact and a first aid (i.e., OSHA "recordable injury") level of Safety/Human Health impact, which are not included in the PSI threshold criteria. However, the purpose of including both of these values is to achieve greater differentiation of severity points for incidents that result in any form of injury, community, or environmental impacts.

I hope this helps. If I am wrong, please educate me.

Thanks.

Regards