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Please note that smaller companies that experience recordable incidents will
most likely have high incident rates, or the incident rates will fluctuate significantly
from year to year. This is because of the small number of employees (and hence the
lower number of labor hours worked) at the company. Calculations are more

meaningful at larger companies that have a higher labor hour count.

Work Related – Work relationship is established with the injury or illness
results from an event or exposure in the work environment. The work environment is
normally considered the company premises, or another location where the employee
is present as a condition of employment (i.e. a construction site, or customer
location). Driving to or from work is not normally considered work-related, unless
the company requires the employee to drive or be transported to a specific location
for a specific business purpose.
The following flowchart is a simplified version to assist companies in
determining workrelationship (Figure 6.1).

Incident or exposure resulting in an injury or illness

Off company premises
On company premises

Employee is performing
a work related activity,
present as a condition Employee is engaged
of employment or in in an activity for their
travel status as a part own personal
of a work related enjoyment
function

Presumed Work Not Work
Related Related

Figure 6.1 - Simplified version to assist companies in determining
workrelationship

2) Lost Time Case Rate (LTC Rate)
Lost Time Case Rate – a mathematical calculation that describes the number of
lost time cases per 100 full-time employees in any given time frame.
The Lost Time Case Rate is a similar calculation, only it uses the number of
cases that contained lost work days. The calculation is made by multiplying the
number of incidents that were lost time cases by 200000 and then dividing that by the
employee labor hours at the company.

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