| The Department of Energy (DOE) takes a
proactive approach to employee health and safety that
makes our worksites among the safest in the nation. As
one initiative in support of this approach, the Office
of Health, Safety and Security prepares Worker Injury/Illness
Rate Charts, the most recent are available below.
The DOE Computerized Accident/Incident Reporting System
(CAIRS) is used by all DOE sites and provides the Department
with a centralized mechanism to track safety metrics
related to injury and illnesses. The Department uses
two primary performance indicators to track and evaluate
injuries and illnesses to workers. These include the
Total Recordable Case (TRC) rate, which involves injury/illness
cases that require medical treatment beyond first aid,
and DART Case rate. DART - (Days Away, Restricted or
on Job Transfer), the number of days away from work
plus the number of days on restricted work activity
or job transfer (OSHA Form 300 columns K plus L). Formerly
LWD. Both of these indicators are normalized as rates
[in terms of cases per 200,000 workhours (or 100 Manyears)
as defined by the Department of Labor (DOL)], to provide
a consistent and regular indication of workplace safety.
The TRC and DART Case Rates are grouped organizationally
under respective Program Secretarial Offices (PSO) as
shown below. Where PSO categories have multiple sites
evaluated during Quarterly Reviews, the respective PSO
charts include a ranking chart based on the most recent
quarter TRC Rates.
- Office of Environmental Management
(EM)
- Office of Science (SC)
- Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
- Office of Fossil Energy (FE)
- Office of Energy Efficiency
(EE)
- Office of Civilian Radioactive
Waste (RW)
- National Nuclear Security
Administration (NNSA)
Note: All injury/illness rates were extracted from the CAIRS database as of August 27, 2007. . All Site injury/illness rates include all contractors and their subcontractors, and no Federal employees (except FE which has Government-Owned-Government-Operated facilities).
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