You are the Director of Safety, Health, and Environment for the chemical manufac

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You are the Director of Safety, Health, and Environment for the chemical manufacturing arm of a large agriculture company. As part of your annual review of the company's integrated management system, you are tasked with analyzing injury and illness data for your company to determine if the year's objectives have been met and to create new performance goals for the future. You were responsible for 20,000 ful-time workers employed at 30 different facilities across the U.S. The larger facilities produce pesticides, fertilizer, feed additives and other agriculture products. Several smaller facilities are focused on research and development One of our o ectives for last year was to reduce the number of total recordable in ures and illnesses per facility by 10% or more from the previous year. The data in the Table 1 below represent the true recordable injury and illness data for your chemical manufacturing division. Table 1: Injury and illness experiences of 30 chemical manufacturing facilities in last two years Year Total number of Average number of Total Recordable Case Rate injuries and linjuries/illnesses per # of injuries or illnesses per 10,000 workers) facility Mean (SD) 80 (12) illnesses prior year 400 12.0 ast year 150 1.7 (11) 10.8

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here as 10% of 80 =8 ; therefore 10% reduction is 72 as we want 10% more reduction:

threfore option A is correct.

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