Industries are usually defined by broad categories like “Construction,” “IT Services,” “Food Service,” etc. Pick a keyword or two that best describes your business. You’ll need that for the next step.
Visit the NAICS search site. Enter a keyword that describes your business in the field in the upper, right-hand corner of the screen, just above the button that reads “2007 NAICS Search”. OSHA still classifies industries based on the older NAICS codes, so you’ll need to use that search instead of the newer, 2012 search. [3] X Trustworthy Source US Occupational Safety and Health Administration U. S. government agency responsible for setting and enforcing workplace safety standards Go to source Click the “2007 NAICS Search” button. The new page that appears will be a list of NAICS codes and businesses. Select the NAICS code that best describes your business. For example, if your business is a restaurant and you put “restaurant” in the search field, you’ll see a variety of codes with descriptions that include the word “restaurant. " However, the code 722110 is used to classify full service restaurants. [4] X Research source
The OSHA website lists exempt industries by NAICS, sorted in ascending numerical order. Just scroll down until you see where your industry code would be located. If it’s there, then your business is exempt. In this case, you can see that 7221 is listed and therefore full-service restaurants do not need to report incidents to OSHA. [6] X Trustworthy Source US Occupational Safety and Health Administration U. S. government agency responsible for setting and enforcing workplace safety standards Go to source Keep in mind, you will still need to report incidents to OSHA if you’re requested to do so by OSHA, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, or any other government organization operating under the authority of OSHA.
The 200,000 in this formula represents how many hours would be worked by 100 employees, each putting in 40 hours per week over 50 weeks in a year; OSHA requires the accident rate to be expressed as incidents per 100 employees with maximum straight-time hours.
Remember, the rate is calculated on an annual basis for OSHA compliance. So, you’ll be reviewing data from the previous year to get the rate.
The total number of hours will include overtime hours, but does not include vacation, paid sick leave or holiday pay.
For example, if you had 1 recordable incident out of 10,000 hours worked in a year. Your calculation would be 1*200,000 / 10,000.
Adjust your calculation for each month to reflect the hours worked by all employees for only that month. Add the incidents and hours worked from each month and then calculate the incident rate on the totals. For instance, if you had 1 January incident over 10,000 hours worked, then your January average incident rate would be (1200,000)/10,000, or 20. For another example, if you had eight accidents over 400,000 hours worked by employees in a year, you would calculate the accident rate as (8200,000)/400,000, or 4.
