ABSTRACT
Medium- to large-size organizations usually establish a safety or risk management program that is designed to control the incidence of injuries and illnesses to employees. The Safety or Risk Managers who operate this program implement such procedures as safety training, safety motivation, safety inspections, and hazard abatement as integral parts of the program. By necessity, the Safety or Risk Managers are concerned about whether their program is effectively protecting the organization’s employees. The criteria for testing the validity and success of a Safety and Risk Management Program has traditionally been the number (frequency) of injuries and illnesses, as well as the severity of injury and illnesses occurring to employees over a given period of time. This chapter describes the traditional statistical method used to validate an existing Safety and Risk Management Program and prognosticate its future success.
