International researchers have thus suggested a variety of approaches to analyze the road traffic safety level as some procedures based on the valuation of the accident rates and
accident frequency.
Our research helps to inform the debate about the social cost of rate regulation in terms of increased
accident frequency and loss costs.
Improvement of actual safety level depends on
accident frequency in the observed period (until 2010).
41 ASR 125 143 Figure 2:
Accident Frequency Rate (AFR) and Accident Severity Rate (ASR), 2007 and 2008.
9 million in plant and machinery, saw its safety performance improve by 22 per cent, cutting its
accident frequency rate (AFR) to 0.
Continuing an uninterrupted trend,
accident frequency declined by 4 percent in 2008, compared with a decline of 2.
NORTH-EAST builder Rok, which has an office in Middlesbrough, is refusing to rest on its laurels after more than halving its
accident frequency rate.
Since Target Zero was launched in 2004, our
accident frequency rate has fallen dramatically, with the total number of accidents halved.
All the workers are taught extensively about safety before they begin the work - and it seems to have paid off, with an
accident frequency rate of less than one for every million man hours worked with 70 million man hours worked so far.
Although individual claim costs are down for insurers, the savings are not being passed on because of the road
accident frequency.
Overall, Hyatt's efforts are having an effect, with
accident frequency down 11 percent and severity down 17 percent last year; the company expects both areas to drop another 15 to 20 percent this year.
The top three division winners were selected based on
accident frequency only.
