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Sheet 4A. Alert & Target Setting Illustration (supplementary)
Preceding Year's Incident Rate
Current Year Incident Rate (2015)
(2014)
Jan 3.2 5 Q1: Is there any Alert condition as of July
Feb 4.5 5.5
Mar 2.8 5.8
Apr 5.1 5.6
May 5.3 4.5 Q2: Is the Average Incident Rate for 2015
Jun 4.1 4.8 better OR worse than 2014?
Jul 3.9 5.1
Aug 5.2 4.9
Sep 4.4 4.3 Q3: Assuming an improvement Target of
Oct 4.6 3.9 5% (better than the 2014 Average Incident
Nov 5.1 4.1 Rate) had been set for 2015, has this
Dec 6.1 5.2 Target been achieved?
AVERAGE 4.5 4.9
STDEVP 0.9 An Alert is deemed to be triggered if -
Ave+1SD 5.4 3 or more consecutive points above 5.4
Ave+2SD 6.3 2 or more consecutive points above 6.3
Ave+3SD 7.2 1 point above 7.2, at any time
Target setting for 2015 is 95% of the 2014 Average Incident Rate.
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STDEVP Excel formula (Doc 9859, C4-App 4)
Σ (𝑥 − 𝜇)2
𝜎=
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