Baremo

English translation: Benchmark

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Spanish term or phrase:	Baremo
English translation:	Benchmark
Entered by:	David Ronder

08:26 Apr 28, 2009

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Spanish term or phrase: Baremo

Hi,

I'm translating a report on the electricity sector in Spain, and there's a table at the end on health and safety in the workplace - two of the headings in the table are "Índice de gravedad con baremo" and "Índice de gravedad sin baremo" - talking about levels of fatal and non-fatal accidents in the workplace, and I have no more context - any ideas? I know a baremo is some sort of scale, but not sure how it fits in here....Thanks!

Paul Lambert KudoZ activity Questions: 166 (2 open) (1 without valid answers) Answers: 351 United States
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Benchmark

Explanation:
Standard Health and Safety terminology, and I think it will work very well in the context. A couple of electrical examples:

Benchmarking and regulation: international electricity experience ...The UK water and electricity regulators apply COLS to the operating costs of ..... The employee health and safety benchmark in brief is a ratio index of the ...
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0957178701000108 - Similar pages
by T Jamasb - 2000 - Cited by 94 - Related articles - All 2 versions

[PDF] Sustainability Report 2006File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
It also participates in consortia producing electricity, for its own consumption. ...... Health and Safety Benchmark exceeded. Strategic focus on Health and ...
www.vale.com/vale_us/media/CVRD_RA06 ing.pdf - Similar pages

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Note added at 1 hr (2009-04-28 09:55:50 GMT)
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Here's that first link again - it doesn't seem to work above:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V...

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David Ronder
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Local time: 01:22

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4 +2

Benchmark

David Ronder

4 +1

Grading

LS Young

Comparative scale

Noni Gilbert Riley

3 -1

Barometer

jude dabo

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33 mins confidence:

Comparative scale

Explanation:
Yes, baremo is a kind of yardstick, more or less official according to the context, against which to measure things. In the area of car insurance for example, they have baremos for how long a certain repair should take, how much paint will be used etc, and won't shell out any more for repair claims. These are actually known as times and materials sheets in the business in the UK, but that doesn't work for you here.

The context of HSE is however not that different in concept. The baremo will show levels so that injuries can classifed in a standardized way. (I'm sure you've seen insurance policies telling you how much you'll get if you lose a little finger as opposed to a little toe). So I think that you were thinking along the right lines!

Noni Gilbert Riley
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Benchmark

David Ronder
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Grading

Explanation:
I would assume they are measuring the degree of seriousness as is common in HSE, this ahs to be done for legal purposes

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The correct term will depend on the type report and what it is dealing with, If is is comparing, for example, the indicendeces of say IBERDROLA in Spain with Scottish Power in Scotland then it will be a comparative analysis. If it is comparing to international/ accpetable standards and goals then it will be a benchmark. Grading for me is a simple scale. In oil copmpanies, for example, you are are required to record every single incident, no matter how small. You are also required to grade these by seriousness, can't remember exactly how but they 1-5, similar to the quick poll you see on PROZ, or minor to major. No benchmark, no comparative study made at this stage.

LS Young
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Barometer

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jude dabo
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