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4. Injury/illness rates provide little feedback for safety im- provement. It is not authoritative in nature, thus provides little or no information on how a company can improve. 5. Injury/illness rates often do not reflect the potential severity of an event, merely the consequence. Whether a particular event results in an injury is often a matter of chance. It will not necessarily reflect whether or not a hazard is under control. 6. A low injury rate can lead to complacency. Likewise, having a single OSHA recordable injury might cause management to overreact. 7. There must be an injury or illness in order to get a data point. Injury statistics reflect outcomes, not causes. A low injury rate results in few data points being available. 8. Smaller companies with fewer man-hours are more sus- ceptible to wide fluctuations in injury rates. OSHA recordable incidents account for a small number of workplace accidents. The causes of such incidents may not represent the norm. Most safety professionals agree with the many pitfalls of using these traditional outcome metrics as the primary per- formance indicator. However, many customers and upper management object to the removal of such outcome metrics. OSHA also requires recordable injuries be logged and tracked. Therefore, it is unlikely these traditional performance metrics will ever be eliminated. The key is to develop additional, more useful, performance indicators in an effort to shift the focus away from the tradi- tional, less useful, outcome metrics. Insurance Claims Data Financial calculations based on insurance claims data are other popular sources for outcome measures. The data include the experience modification rate, loss ratio, and total losses incurred. The experience modification rate (EMR) is a factor applied to the manual premium to either increase or decrease the in- sured's final premium. The rate is determined by the National National Groundwater Awareness Week Promote the resource that provides your livelihood! Visit NGWA.org/Awareness Week today to get started — or call (800) 551-7379 or (614) 898-7791. Educate your customers about the importance of annual water testing and well maintenance during National Groundwater Awareness Week, March 5-11, 2017. You will be helping them, yourself, your business, your industry, and the resource. To help you spread the word, NGWA has materials for you to use from sample letters-to-the-editor and radio spots to print ads, posters, and iers. Safety Tools Available Online Go to the NGWA Online Bookstore to view a host of materials to help keep you safe at the job site. Visit www.NGWA.org. Twitter @WaterWellJournl WWJ January 2017 39 SAFETY continues on page 40 DACUM Codes To help meet your professional needs, this column covers skills and competencies found in DACUM charts for drillers and pump installers. DO refers to the drilling chart and PI represents the pumps chart. The letter and number immediately following is the skill on the chart covered by the column. This column covers: DOC-2, DOD-8, DOK-4, DOK-8, DOK-9, PIB-2, PIG-1, PIG-3 More information on DACUM and the charts are available at www.NGWA.org.