Scenario 8.1: SaFE The Safety for Everyone (SaFE)program at Canadian Rails (CR)encourages Peer-On-Peer

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Scenario 8.1: SaFE
The Safety For Everyone (SaFE) program at Canadian Rails (CR) encourages peer-on-peer safety."SaFE observers" provide positive and constructive feedback to peers during a shift.At-risk behaviours are discussed in confidence and corrected on the spot.General observations are noted by the SaFE observer and shared with supervisors for future analysis.Several weeks ago CR experienced a train crash in which several employees were injured.Many employees are emotional and shocked that this occurred as CR has extensive health and safety policies and practices to ensure public safety of which SaFE is only one of many health and safety initiatives.There had also been a high number of injuries by employees working in the Canadian Rails shipyards.
-Please refer to Scenario 8.1.Several employees with injuries from the train crash will be missing time from work.What is a workplace injury called when a worker misses time from work?

• A)lost-time injury
• B)critical incident injury
• C)accident injury
• D)compensated injury

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Definitions:

Poisson Random Variable

A statistical measure that expresses the probability of a given number of events occurring in a fixed interval of time or space, assuming these events happen with a known constant mean rate and independently of the time since the last event.

Specified Interval

A defined range of values within which a particular parameter or statistic is expected to lie.

Success Probability

The likelihood or chance of an event happening, particularly used in the context of achieving a specific outcome.

Rate

A measure, quantity, or frequency, typically one measured against another quantity or measure, such as speed (distance per unit of time) or interest rate (interest per unit of time or per amount of principle).