More than half of your injury risk is sitting with the people who've been on your crew the shortest.
Every crew turns over. The data says the risk concentrates exactly where it's hardest to keep track of -- the newest person on site.
Where the risk actually sits
Share of workplace injuries in a worker's first 3 months
16%
[Workers in first two years on job account for 54% of comp injuries, WCRI (Business Insurance)]Share of workplace injuries in a worker's first year
Nearly 4 in 10
[Workers in first two years on job account for 54% of comp injuries, WCRI (Business Insurance)]Share of all workers' comp injuries among workers with under 2 years' tenure
54%
[Workers in first two years on job account for 54% of comp injuries, WCRI (Business Insurance)]None of this is about any one worker being careless -- it's about how little time a new hire has had to actually absorb a site's hazards before something goes wrong. A crew that onboards five new people a month is, by this data, carrying most of its real injury risk in the group that's hardest to keep consistently trained.
Safety Talk TV adds a new hire to the rotation the same day they join the roster -- no separate onboarding packet, no waiting for the next scheduled session. They start getting the same safety talk videos as everyone else on their very first day, in their own language, automatically.