OSHA Incident Rate

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Incident Rates are used to measure the safety performance of a workplace. The OSHA Incident Rate is calculated by taking the number of recordable incidents in a given time period and dividing it by the number of hours worked in that same time period. The result is then multiplied by 200,000 to get the OSHA Incident Rate. For businesses, the OSHA Incident Rate is an important metric for gauging their safety performance. It helps them to identify potential problems and areas of improvement. The lower the rate, the better the safety performance. The higher the rate, the more often a business has to take corrective action to reduce the likelihood of future incidents. Creative Safety Supply has created a handy online calculator to make it easy for businesses to calculate their OSHA Incident Rate. This calculator requires businesses to enter the number of recordable incidents and the total number of hours worked in the same time period. The calculator then automatically calculates the OSHA Incident Rate for the business. In addition to the calculator, Creative Safety Supply also provides businesses with an OSHA Incident Rate formula. This formula can be used to manually calculate the OSHA Incident Rate.