Work-related Fatality Rates: How Low Is Low Enough?

“If you don’t get better, staying the same is probably not good enough.”  — Chris Mullen If a bowler always—always—bowls a perfect 300, they are as good as a bowler can be. If other bowlers also develop that level of skill, they cannot beat a perfect 300. The best they can do is tie. There [...]

By |2025-01-16T12:25:15-06:00May 2nd, 2024|Workplace Safety|Comments Off on Work-related Fatality Rates: How Low Is Low Enough?

What We Worry About: It’s Not the Virus

“The term ‘triage’ normally means deciding who gets attention first.”  — Bill Dedman Most people have no reason to worry about getting fatally ill from COVID-19. Despite early estimates of fatality rates being about 2%, Sharon Begley reports in STAT News that a new paper puts the estimate closer to 1.4% overall: 0.5% for those [...]

By |2025-01-17T10:13:21-06:00March 19th, 2020|Current Events|1 Comment
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