Over the course of his career in Long Beach, California, Jeff Davis has established himself as a dedicated industrial safety educator. Jeff Davis most recently served as a safety instructor and manager with Beacon Energy Services in Signal Hill, where he helped the company achieve a total recordable incident rate (TRIR) of 0.00 over a four-year period.
A common lagging indicator used to measure safety, the total recordable injury rate takes into account the number of hours a facility works over a given date range. Mathematically speaking, a company’s TRIR equals the number of recordable injuries times 200,000, divided by the total number of hours worked. The TRIR does not depend on the number of employees working at a particular facility, relying only on the number of recordable injuries and the number of hours worked. A lower TRIR indicates a lower injury rate and, therefore, a better safety record. As such, a company’s TRIR improves with each hour that passes without an injury.
A common lagging indicator used to measure safety, the total recordable injury rate takes into account the number of hours a facility works over a given date range. Mathematically speaking, a company’s TRIR equals the number of recordable injuries times 200,000, divided by the total number of hours worked. The TRIR does not depend on the number of employees working at a particular facility, relying only on the number of recordable injuries and the number of hours worked. A lower TRIR indicates a lower injury rate and, therefore, a better safety record. As such, a company’s TRIR improves with each hour that passes without an injury.