Glossary

Average Annual Number of Employees

The total number of employees who are paid in all pay periods divided by the number of pay periods. Employees include full-time, part-time, seasonal, temporary, hourly, and salaried employees.

Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS)

The principal fact-finding agency for the U.S. Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.

Case or OSHA Recordable Case

A case that you report in the system when an employee is injured or ill on the job as a result of an occupational incident, resulting in death, days away from work, restricted work or transfer to another job, medical treatment beyond first aid, or loss of consciousness. A single incident may result in more than one employee getting injured, so a single incident may result in more than one case.

Complex Injury

An injury is complex when a person suffers from more than one injury or illness due to a single incident.

CafeOne - Composite Application Framework

A JD Edwards EnterpriseOne tools feature that provides a configurable frame to display context sensitive links that are external to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne systems.

Days Away and Work Restricted Transfer (DART)

An occurrence rate of incidents with recordable cases that involve days away from work, days of restricted work activity, or job transfer.

Days Away From Work Case

A case that you record for an employee who is absent from work for one or more days as a result of an occupational injury or illness. This is a classification that is subject to reporting to OSHA and the BLS.

Establishment

As defined by OSHA, an organization is an establishment if the organization is involved in the same work activity and therefore exposed to the same risk. An establishment for OSHA reporting purposes is defined as a single physical location where like business is conducted or where services or industrial operations are performed.

Failure Analysis

The process of collecting and analyzing data to determine the cause of a failure.

Incident

An occupational health and safety event that can involve security, environmental damage or exposure, motor vehicle incident or damage, asset or property damage, and illness or injury.

Incident Frequency Rate

The number of recordable injuries and illnesses that occurs to a specific number of full-time workers, usually 100 full-time workers, over a given period of time, usually a year.

Incident Impact Rate

The rate that measures the financial or lost time impact of incidents.

Lost Time Case

A case that results in either days away from work, restricted work activity, or job transfer.

Lost Time Incidents (LTI)

An incident that has one or more cases resulting in either days away from work, restricted work activity, or job transfer.

OIICS - Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System

A classification system that the BLS uses to code the case characteristics of injuries, illnesses, and fatalities in the Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII), and the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) programs. This manual contains the rules of selection, code descriptions, code titles, and indices, for the following code structures:

  • Nature of Injury or Illness.

  • Part of Body Affected.

  • Source of Injury or Illness.

  • Event or Exposure.

  • Secondary Source of Injury or Illness.

OSHA - Occupational Safety and Health Administration

A federal agency of the United States that regulates workplace safety and health.

Other Recordable Case

An OSHA injury/illness classification that you use to report anything other than death, days away from work, restricted work, or job transfer.

People Level of Detail

A term used in the One View Incident People Inquiry program (P54HS230) to indicate the source of data for the rows in the grid. You use the People Level of Detail information to accurately count people and injuries and illnesses.

Level of Detail = 1 represents a person's record in the Incident People table (F54HS02) without the association of any injury or illness records in the Incident Injury/Illness table (F54HS021).

A Level of Detail = 2 represents a person's record in the Incident People table (F54HS02) with the first additional injury or illness record for that person in the Incident Injury/Illness table (F54HS021).

A Level of Detail = 3 represents a person's record in the Incident People table (F54HS02) with a subsequent additional injury or illness record for that person in the Incident Injury/Illness table (F54HS021).

Privacy Case

A case that is private in nature or the people involved in the case have requested to keep the details of the case private. Privacy cases are reported without revealing the person's name and with an alternate, less intimate description of their injury or illness.

Recordable Injury Case

A case with an injury classification such as:

  • Death

  • Restricted Work

  • Days Away or Other Recordable Cases

Recordable Incident

An incident that has one or more employees injured or ill on the job.

OSHA Reportable Case

A work-related injury or illness that require employers to contact OSHA within a certain number of hours. Reportable incidents include fatalities, serious injuries resulting in in-patient hospitalization, amputations or loss of an eye.

Restricted Work Case

A case that you report when an employee is injured or is ill on the job for which the injury or illness causes the employer or health care professional to recommend that the employee avoid doing the routine functions of his or her job. It also includes incidents in which the employer or health care professional recommends that the employee avoids working the full workday that the employee would have been scheduled to work if not injured or ill.

Record Type (Release 9.1 Update)

A user defined field to classify different uses of the incident master record. This is useful when analyzing incidents.

Safety Hours

The hours defined as hours that an employee has worked or is available to work.

Safety Hours Group

An organizational unit that you can report or analyze. The organizational unit includes establishments, companies, business units, projects, and contractors.

Safety Metric Basis

A method to count events to analyze incidents by safety hours, miles or kilometers driven, or deliveries made.

TRIF - Total Recordable Incident Frequency

The incident frequency rate for all recordable incidents that generally includes reportable cases.

Workers Compensation

A form of insurance that provides wage replacement and medical benefits to employees injured in the course of employment. An employer provides this insurance in exchange for mandatory relinquishment of the employee's right to sue the employer for negligence.