Sectorial information that will enable better decision-making in electrical maintenance teams
After reviewing secondary information sources, from organizations like FASECOLDA (1) and SUPERSERVICIOS (2), the VOLTIA team has generated this article to provide a concise summary of the impacts caused by insufficient #ElectricalSafetyManagement. Here are the 5 most relevant statistics to consider:
- Between the years 2010 and 2021, according to the figures reported by Superservicios, there were 3161 accidents of electrical origin, of which 09% resulted in death and 40.32% in burns.
- The 5 main causes of these accidents were as follows: 1255 or 39.7% Direct Contact, 892 or 28.22% Indirect Contact, 300 or 9.49% Electric Arcs, 88 or 2.78% Contact Voltage, and finally, causes different from the 11 types of electrical risk accounted for 440 or 13.92% Other Causes.
- There are 3 TYPES OF ORIGIN for these accidents. The first one is human – 82%; the second one is electrical system conditions – 24.36%, and the third one is external conditions – 33.82%.
- For 2021, FASECOLDA reported a total of 1,014,964 companies with a workforce of 10,799,353 in the Social Security System. Companies in the MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY represent 8.29% of the total number of companies in Colombia, where 88,218 accidents were reported. This means that 77 out of every 1000 workers had an accident in the manufacturing industry in 2021. There were 10,691 accidents classified as CLASS 5, and this business sector paid an average of 30 million pesos for each occupational accident. The total cost of class 5 accidents in the manufacturing industry for 2021 amounted to 320 billion pesos.
- A work-related death in 2021, on average, cost a manufacturing sector company 900 billion pesos (four thousand nine hundred million), according to data from FASECOLDA. Deaths resulting from CLASS 5 accidents account for 21% of the manufacturing industry. Information was cross-referenced, according to an article by Portafolio Newspaper(3).
The reflection that arises from this initial approach to #ElectricalSafetyCosts is for companies and their maintenance teams to evaluate the quality and level of regulatory compliance, both legally and technically, of the #IntelligentManagement of their #IndustrialElectricalInfrastructure. To do this, we suggest using our 3-minute tool to quickly diagnose the electrical safety of your production plant or company.
We conclude by presenting a case in which a company lost 90 million pesos or 14 thousand dollars due to a lightning strike whose effects were not mitigated by an improperly sized SPD. How much money are companies and their maintenance departments willing to lose due to a gap in their electrical safety that could result in a Class 5 incident?
NOTE 1: The statistics from Superservicios focus solely on Public Utility companies; however, since they also have a Class 5 risk associated with their activities, they serve as a clear reference for the Manufacturing Industries sector.
NOTE 2: The presented data corresponds to analyses applied to the information provided by the organizations referenced in the sources below.
SOURCES OF CONSULTED INFORMATION
(1)Website of FASECOLDA – Federación de Aseguradores Colombianos, in its module of statistics on reported occupational accidents in Colombia by risk class. https://fasecolda.com/ramos/riesgos-laborales/estadisticas-del-ramo/
(2)Report of electrical accidents from the Superintendencia de Servicios Públicos, hosted on the open data portal of the Colombian government. https://www.datos.gov.co/Minas-y-Energ-a/Superservicios-Informaci-n-de-Accidentes-de-Origen/es62-3x6p
(3) Website Portafolio newspaper, “Work accidents cost $2 billion to companies in 2021.” https://www.portafolio.co/economia/empleo/accidentes-laborales-en-colombia-durante-2021-cuantos-fueron-y-cuanto-costaron-56324
