Indian Health and Safety Legislation: Safety Officer Requirement.

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Industrial Health and Safety blogs. What are the Indian Health and Safety Legislation Requirement for  "Safety Officer"  in different states? Ans: Section 40-B. Safety Officers According to The Factories Act 1948 In every factory :- wherein  one thousand(1000) or more workers are ordinarily employed , or wherein, in the  opinion of the State Government , any manufacturing process or operation is carried on, which  process or operation involves any risk of bodily injury ,  poisoning or disease or any other hazard to health, to the person employed in the factory , the occupier shall, if so required by the State Government by notification in Official Gazette, employ such number of Safety Officers as may be specified in that notification. UTTAR PRADESH FACTORY RULES 1950 and Uttar Pradesh Factories (Safety Officers) Rules, 1984 THE TAMILNADU FACTORIES RULES, 1950, The Tamil Nadu Safety Officers (Duties, Qualifications and Condi
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What are the types of formulae used to compare Health and Safety Performance? Which statistical techniques occupiers can use to analyze accident/incident and ill health? Is Incident analysis required to compare organisation Health and Safety Performance?

What are the types of formula used to compare Health and Safety Performance? Which statistical techniques occupiers can use to analyze accident/incident and ill health?  Is Incident analysis required to compare organisation Health and Safety Performance?


You cannot manage, what you cannot measure (.i.e. Peter F Drucker). So measuring health and safety performance is vital for any organisation, country so as to take decisions for further improvements and find the gaps in the existing efforts. Measuring health and safety performance should be quantitative wherever possible. This can be made easy with the help of different formula used by countries like US and UK (HSE and OSHA) to compare health and safety performance. Types of formula used to compare health and safety performance differ from country to country. 



However below mentioned formula are common while doing comparison of health and safety performance among country, organisation, states, within Group Company etc.:

Total Injury frequency rate = [(Number of lost time injury + Number of medical treatment injury) / Total number of man hours worked] X 1000000.


Lost time injury frequency rate= [Number of lost time injury/ Total number of man hours worked] X 1000000.


Lost time Severity Rate = [Number of Man days lost/ Total number of man hours worked] X 1000000.

Frequency Rate = [Number of accidents/ Total number of man hours worked] X 1000000. (United Kingdom).

Incidence Rate = [Number of accidents/ Total number of persons worked] X 100000. (United Kingdom).


Severity Rate = [Number of man days lost/ Total number of man hours worked] X 1000. (United Kingdom).


Mean Duration Rate= Number of man days lost / total number of accidents. (United Kingdom).


Incident Rate= [number of recordable incident / Total number of labor hours worked] X 20, 0000 (OSHA)

So it is clear that UK (It means HSE) use 1000000 and US (It means OSHA) use 20, 0000. So one should take care while comparing these countries health and safety performance.


Epidemiological analysis & Statistical Techniques:

Epidemiological meaning is relating to the branch of medicine which deals with the incidence, distribution, and control of diseases. ( Ref: www.google.com).

So as name suggests epidemiological analysis first initiated to determine the cause, trends, location of epidemic diseases like cholera etc. Experts use this type of analysis to eliminate the root cause of the disease. So statistical techniques has been used to analyze the epidemiological analysis and in similar manner occupier can determine the location, group of people, age of people, specific workplace etc prone to accident/ incident by using statistical techniques.

Byssinosis, also called "brown lung disease" or "Monday fever", is an occupational lung disease caused by exposure to cotton dust in poor ventilated workplace. Doing statistical analysis one can easily understands among girls it is common, fabric, thread and yarn manufacturer industry is more dangerous, region like US suffered 81 fatalities from 1990 to 1999. North Carolina maximum affected area, South Carolina and Georgia are also suffered locations.


This all above mentioned data for Byssinosis possible to analyze because of the statistical techniques. Different data dimensions can be analyzed using statistical techniques. Data dimension means single similar data like area of injury; multiple data dimension like parts of body, area, age etc.

Different type of graphs can be used like pie chart, Line graph and bar graph for statistical analysis.

Pie Chart: Coloured 360 degree Circle shape, different categories and percent distribution, number distribution can be done for accident/incident.

Bar Graph: X and Y axis and coloured Rectangle bars used to analyze high or low accident /incident data.
Line Graph: X and Y axis and one continuous line going sometime low, sometime high to indicate the quantity, percentage etc. of accident/ incident.

So it is apparent that accident /incident can be analyze using statistical techniques like Pie chart, Line graph and bar graph. This is very useful tool to pin point the exact cause of accident/ incident and can be proven a tool to solve the accident/incident cause at workplace. Also LTIFR (Lost time frequency rate) , LTISR (Lost time severity rate) etc. can be analyze using statistical techniques over month , years etc by organisation to compare their health and safety performance by time. Also this can be done to set benchmark , compare performance with other organisations etc.



Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org







I am a Health and Safety professional writing blogs related to Industrial Health and Safety. I am qualified from Regional labor institute India and International Diploma from NEBOSH.

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