Steps You Can Take to Reduce Your DART RATE Webinar (Prerecorded) Missed our live webinar? Watch it here now! Please be patient while this may take a little while to play, this is a fairly large video file (AVI) and is approximately 40 minutes long. If you are not able to view this webinar, contact us for additional information. ................................................................................................................................................. What is a DART Rate? 
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................................................................................................................................................. The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration surveys employers to collect workplace injury and illness data it uses to identify employers whose injury and illness rates are considerably higher than the national average. A letter has been sent to about 15,000 workplaces with the highest numbers of injuries and illnesses resulting in days away from work, restricted work activities or job transfers, known as the DART rate. "Receipt of this letter means that workers in that particular establishment are being injured at a higher rate than in most other businesses of its kind in the country," said Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA Dr. David Michaels. "Employers whose businesses have injury and illness rates this high need to take immediate steps to protect their workers." OSHA identified businesses with the nation's highest rates of workplace injuries and illnesses through employer-reported data from a 2009 survey of about 100,000 worksites. (This survey collected injury and illness data for calendar year 2008.) Workplaces receiving notifications had DART rates more than twice the national average among all U.S. workplaces. Read more of this OSHA release at http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=NEWS_RELEASES&p_id=17238 U.S. Department of Labor releases are accessible on the Internet at http://www.dol.gov. www.OSHA.gov Excerpt of Release Number: 10-294-NAT
March 9, 2010
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