What are the essential elements of unified command?
There are four basic elements to consider in applying Unified Command in ICS: 1. Policy, Objectives, and Strategy: Jurisdictional and agency administrators set policy. The Unified Command sets objectives and strategy.
What are two types of incident?
One approach is to have just two types of incidents: Accident and Near Miss. Another approach would be to have four types: Accident, Notifiable Accident, Incident and Notifiable Incident.
What are the different types of major incidents?
There are several types of major incidents. There are natural, hostile, health related, and technological.
How do you categorize incidents?
Incidents can be categorized by type, by caller, by technology, by incident, or by service. The first question to ask is, Which of these is most important to the customer? Typically, organizations that are implementing service management will start with the service.
What is loss time?
A “lost time” claim is created when a worker suffers a work-related injury/disease which results in them being off work past the day of the accident, incurring a loss of wages/earnings, or suffering from a permanent disability/impairment. Lost time affects both your operating costs and your productivity.
How is RIR calculated?
You can calculate your TCIR or TRIR by using the following formula: (Number of OSHA Recordable injuries and illnesses X 200,000) / Employee total hours worked = Total Case Incident Rate.
What is the lost time injury?
A lost-time injury is something that results in a fatality, permanent disability or time lost from work. It could be as little as one day or shift. LTIFR refer to the number of lost-time injuries within a given accounting period, relative to the total number of hours worked in that period.
How is LTI calculated in safety?
Divide your total number of lost time injuries (in a given time period) by the total number of hours worked (in that period). Multiply the results by 200,000 (this is the generally accepted baseline of LTI established by OSHA; it represents 100 employees working 50 weeks or approximately one year).
What is an LTI safety?
An LTI (Lost Time Injury) is an injury sustained by an employee that leads to loss of productive work in the form of absenteeism or delays. A workplace injury is only considered an LTI if the worker is unable to perform their regular duties, takes time off to recover or is assigned to modified tasks while they heal.
What is LTI and MTI?
LTI = Lost Time injury. ADI = Alternative duties injury. MTI = Medical treatment injury (no lost time)