severity.rate: Severity rate

Description Usage Arguments Examples

View source: R/rEHS.R

Description

a mathematical calculation that describes the number of lost days experienced as compared to the number of incidents experienced

Usage

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severity.rate(total.days.lost, total.recordable.incidents)

Arguments

total.days.lost

total number of work days lost due to injury and illness. number of days lost do not need to be consecutive

total.recordable.incidents

total number of recordable incidents that happened in a reporting period

Examples

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## severity.rate(5, 2)
## 5 work days were lost from 2 recordable incidents
## "Severity rate: 2.50"
## the average recordable incident resulted in 2.5 lost days

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