perviolation

Perviolation is a term used in some compliance and risk-management contexts to describe a rate or normalized measure of violations. It is formed from "per" and "violation" to indicate violations per a specified exposure unit, such as per inspection, per transaction, or per time period. The term is not universally standardized and is more common in internal reporting and analytics than in formal statutes.

In practice, organizations use perviolation metrics to assess risk, monitor performance, and benchmark across facilities or programs. For example, if a facility records 3 violations during 150 inspections in a month, the perviolation rate can be expressed as 3 per 150 inspections or 0.02 violations per inspection.

Common exposure units include inspections, audits, transactions, customer interactions, revenue, or exposure hours. The general formula is perviolation rate = number of violations divided by the chosen exposure unit, often scaled to a convenient base such as per 1,000 inspections.

Limitations include not capturing the severity or penalties of violations, variations in data collection, and the influence of inspection frequency. Without context, perviolation figures can mislead unless paired with severity-weighted metrics and risk scores.

See also violation rate, incident rate, compliance metric.