January 07, 2021
Supported and jointly developed by INTERCARGO members, a reporting scheme was introduced in 2018, aiming to assess bulk carrier industry averages of crew Injury and lost time frequency rates thus providing INTERCARGO’s Members with effective Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) for benchmarking purposes.
Widely acceptable KPIs include the following categories:
Lost Time Injury (LTI)
The sum of Fatalities, Permanent Total Disabilities (PTD), Permanent Partial Disabilities (PPD) and Lost Workday Cases (LWC).
Fatality
A death directly resulting from a work injury regardless of the length of time between the injury and death.
Permanent Total Disability (PTD)
PTD is any work injury that incapacitates an employee permanently and results in termination of employment on medical grounds (e.g. loss of limb(s) permanent brain damage, loss of sight) and precludes the individual from working either at sea or ashore.
Permanent Partial Disability (PPD)
PPD is any work injury that results in the complete loss, or permanent loss of use, of any member or part of the body, or any impairment of functions of parts of the body, regardless of any pre-existing disability of the injured member or impaired body function, that partially restricts or limits an employee’s basis to work on a permanent basis at sea. Such an individual could be employed ashore but not at sea in line with industry guidelines.
Lost Workday Case (LWC)
This is an injury that results in an individual being unable to carry out any of his duties or to return to work on a scheduled work shift on the day following the injury unless caused by delays in getting medical treatment ashore.
Note: An injury is classified as an LWC if the individual is discharged from the ship for medical treatment.
Medical Treatment Case (MTC)
This is any work-related loss of consciousness (unless due to ill health), injury or illness requiring more than first aid treatment by a physician, dentist, surgeon or registered medical personnel, e.g., nurse or paramedic under the standing orders of a physician, or under the specific order of a physician or if at sea with no physician onboard could be considered as being in the province of a physician.
Restricted Work Case (RWC)
An injury that results in an individual being unable to perform all normally assigned work functions during a scheduled work shift or being assigned to another job on a temporary or permanent basis on the day following the injury.
Total recordable Cases (TRC)
The sum of all work-related lost time injuries, restricted work injuries and medical treatment Injuries. TRCs = LTIs + RWCs + MTCs.
Exposure Hours
24 hours per day while serving on board.
Lost Time Injury Frequency (LTIF)
LTIF = LTIs x 1,000,000/Exposure Hours
Total Recordable Case Frequency (TRCF)
TRCF = (LTIs + RWCs + MTCs) x 1,000,000/Exposure Hours
What does “LTIF=1.9612” or “TRCF=5.1334” mean to a 22-manned bulk carrier?
This bulk carrier would have 192720 exposed man-hours per year (= 22 x 365 x 24). Therefore “TRCF=5.1334” can be interpreted as about 1 Recordable Case to occur on that bulk carrier every year (=TRCF x 192720 / 1000000=0.9893).
Similarly LTIF=1.9612, it means about 1 Lost Time Injury to occur on that bulk carrier every 3 years (=LTIF x 192720 / 1000000=0.3780).
Please download the attached document Benchmarking crew injury frequency and lost time for more details. Members are encouraged to use the table contained with the downloaded document to provide input via email to info@intercargo.org.
