Ep. 183 Understanding the DART and TCIR Rates
Rancho Mesa's Alyssa Burley and Media Communications & Client Services Coordinator Lauren Stumpf talk about DART and TCIR calculation rates.
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Director/Host: Alyssa Burley
Producer/Guest: Lauren Stumpf
Editor: Megan Lockhart
Music: "Home" by JHS Pedals, “News Room News” by Spence
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Transcript
Alyssa Burley: Hi, this is Alyssa Burley with Rancho Mesa Media Communications and Client Services Department. Thank you for listening to today's top Rancho Mesa News, brought to you by our safety and risk management network, StudioOne™.
Welcome back. Today, my guest is Lauren Stumpf, Media Communications and Client Services Specialist with Rancho Mesa. Today, we’re going to talk about DART and TCIR calculation rates. Lauren, welcome to the show.
Lauren Stumpf: As always, thanks for having me Alyssa.
AB: For listeners who aren’t familiar with DART and TCIR calculations rates, can you tell us a little bit about what those are?
LS: Sure, DART stands for Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred. A DART Rate is used to track any OSHA recordable workplace injury or illness that results in days away from work, restricted duty, or transfer of duties.
On the other hand, TCIR, or referred to as Total Case Incident Rate, or just The OSHA Incident Rate, is a measure of a company's past safety performance based on their incident rate. A TCIR is found by looking at the number of work-related injuries per 100 full-time workers during a one-year period.
AB: Okay so now that we understand the gist of a DART and TCIR, how would a contractor utilize these calculations for the company’s benefit?
LS: Customers like construction project owners are increasingly requesting these numbers along with bid requests. Not only do they want to see how much it’s going to cost them to build the project, but they want to know how safe their contractor is on the jobsite. These numbers show that. OSHA also uses these calculations to monitor high-risk industries. Rancho Mesa’s Risk Management Center, features a tool that helps their clients generate DARTs and TCIRs.
AB: Interesting, can you tell us how that works?
LS: Once the client is logged in, they can use the Incident Track application to enter and track an incident’s details. Once that incident has been saved, the system will allow them to generate OSHA logs based on the data and generate the DART and TCIR.
AB: This sounds like a great easy-to-use tool if you need to figure out what those rates are.
Lauren, if listeners want to learn more about the Risk Management Center where they can use the DART and TCIR generator tool, where should they look?
LS: They should go to ranchomesa.com, click on RM365 in the navigation bar and click Risk Management Center.
AB: Lauren, thank you for joining me in StudioOne™.
LS: Thanks for having me.
AB: This is Alyssa Burley with Rancho Mesa. Thanks for tuning into our latest episode produced by StudioOne™. For more information, visit us at RanchoMesa.com and subscribe to our weekly newsletter.