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Your DART Rate: Connecting Safety Data to Better Decisions

Michael Holt
Michael Holt
Your DART Rate: Connecting Safety Data to Better Decisions
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A safety review can bring several useful measures to the table: training completed, injuries recorded, and days without an incident. Looking at them together raises a worthwhile question: what do those measures reveal about how well your team members are being protected?

The Holt Group’s insight on DART rate offers another way to explore that question. DART tracks cases involving days away from work, restricted duties, or job transfers. Training totals and injury counts provide useful information, but alone they do not distinguish the cases that interrupt a team member’s usual work.

Reviewing your DART rate over time, alongside industry benchmarks, can help connect safety activity with outcomes. That ongoing attention gives leadership a reference point for discussing progress and deciding where to focus the next improvement effort.

Key Takeaways from the Insight

  • Identify qualifying cases: Track incidents involving at least one day away from work, restricted duties, or a job transfer, rather than counting every injury.
  • Calculate consistently: Multiply qualifying cases by 200,000, then divide by total team member labor hours worked for the same period.
  • Use industry context: Compare your rate with relevant industry benchmarks to put your organization’s workplace safety performance into perspective.
  • Review progress over time: Compare year-over-year results and use lower DART and incidence rates as benchmarks for ongoing safety improvement.

Explore the Full Risk Insights Article

If you’d like a closer look, the full Understanding Your DART Rate article explores what qualifying cases reveal about workplace safety and how the rate is calculated.

It includes the DART formula, an explanation of the 200,000-hour benchmark, and considerations for comparing safety performance across your industry and over time.

Read the Full Insight Here

About The Holt Group

The Holt Group helps business leaders protect their organizations and team members through practical risk management planning and implementation. Our purpose is to help people build stronger businesses by connecting the decisions, systems, and relationships that influence risk.

Through Risk Management University, we bring leadership, compliance, risk prevention, risk finance, and insurance together as an integrated system. Safety and compliance training, claims guidance, and risk management resources help business partners put that approach into everyday practice.

Contact us to explore how an integrated risk management approach could support your business.

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