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Cost to Northern Ireland of Workplace Injuries and Ill-health
Author: Cost of Work Related Injuries, Ill Health and Non-injury Accidents to the Northern Ireland Economy
Author: Health and Safety Executive for Northern IrelandPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Costs of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses
Author: J. Paul LeighPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472110810
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
As the debate over health care reform continues, costs have become a critical measure in the many plans and proposals to come before us. Knowing costs is important because it allows comparisons across such disparate health conditions as AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, heart disease, and cancer. This book presents the results of a major study estimating the large and largely overlooked costs of occupational injury and illness--costs as large as those for cancer and over four times the costs of AIDS. The incidence and mortality of occupational injury and illness were assessed by reviewing data from national surveys and applied an attributable-risk-proportion method. Costs were assessed using the human capital method that decomposes costs into direct categories such as medical costs and insurance administration expenses, as well as indirect categories such as lost earnings and lost fringe benefits. The total is estimated to be $155 billion and is likely to be low as it does not include costs associated with pain and suffering or of home care provided by family members. Invaluable as an aid in the analysis of policy issues, Costs of Occupational Injuryand Illness will serve as a resource and reference for economists, policy analysts, public health researchers, insurance administrators, labor unions and labor lawyers, benefits managers, and environmental scientists, among others. J. Paul Leigh is Professor in the School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of California, Davis. Stephen Markowitz, M.D., is Professor in the Department of Community Health and Social Medicine, City University of New York Medical School. Marianne Fahs is Director of the Health Policy Research Center, Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, New School University. Philip Landrigan, M.D., is Wise Professor and Chair of the Department of Community Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York.
The Costs of Accidents at Work
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ISBN: 9780717613434
Category : Employee health promotion
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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This revised version of HS(G)96 (0 7176 1343 7) continues to publicizes the message that most companies do not realize the extent of their losses due to accidents. It emphasizes that there is no contradiction between profitability and good health and safety mnagement. TUC figures show that unions secured damage awards totalling 304m for workplace injuries and ill health to their members in 1995. The revision is aimed primarily at management and applies to all industries. It repalces 0 7176 1343 7, with the same series number.
The Cost of Injuries to Employers: Methods Supplement
Author: T. R. MillerMyths of Work
Author: Ian MacRaePublisher: Kogan Page Publishers
ISBN: 0749481293
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Buying a table tennis table will make your staff happier. Working eight hours a day, five days a week, will result in the most productivity. Paying higher salaries will always result in higher motivation. But will it really? There are a staggering number of myths, stereotypes and out-of-date rules that abound in the workplace. This can make it feel impossible to truly know how to get the most out of your career, your team and your organization. In Myths of Work, Ian MacRae and Adrian Furnham take an entertaining and evidence-based look at the most pervasive myths about our working lives, from the serious to the ridiculous, to give you the insight you need to become a better manager in the modern workplace. Fascinating real life case studies from organizations around the world display the myths (and how to overcome them) in practice. Myths of Work takes the most up-to-date academic research in business and psychology and combines it with practical insights, a lively writing style and a handy dip-in-and-out structure to form your ultimate guide to becoming a better enlightened manager.
Health Promotion Settings
Author: Angela ScrivenPublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1446253953
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Health Promotion Settings combines the theoretical discourse of the settings approach, covering a wide range of fundamental principles, concepts and policy issues, with real life examples of settings, including workplaces, schools, neighbourhood, cities and prisons. Frameworks and processes that are actively shaping health promotion in settings in the 21st Century are documented and the ideas and research covered will provide a vital set of indicators for those who promote health in settings. Combining theory with practical examples and case studies, the authors show how a settings approach can work in practice, drawing on a range of local, national and international initiatives and coordinated projects. Health Promotion Settings provides a rich source of ideas and case examples which highlight the challenges for promoting health in a range of contexts. Special attention is given to the workplace as both a priority area for health promotion and a key determinant of health. Written by a highly experienced team of health promotion and public health professionals, academics and researchers, this book is essential reading for both students and practitioners working towards the improvement of health using a settings approach. Online Resources are provided.
Workplace Injuries and Diseases
Author: Karen RobertsPublisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute
ISBN: 0880993243
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The chapters in this volume were originally presented at a conference to honor Terry Thomason,held at the University of Rhode Island in March, 2004. It is about workplace safety and health and issues related to prevention and compensation for occupational injuries and illnesses, a topicto which Terry devoted much of his research life. The volume is intended to serve as a detailedintroduction to the workers' compensation novice but also provide insights to those more familiarwith the area.
Estimating the Cost of Work-related Accidents and Ill-health
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ISBN: 9789292409975
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The European Agency for Safety and Health at work (EU-OSHA) aims to estimate the costs of accidents at work, work-related health problems and work-related deaths in Europe. The first step towards achieving this objective entails the production of an overview of the availability and quality of the national and international data sources required for the development of such a European-level cost calculation. The current report presents these results. The availability of relevant data was checked at the international as well as the national level in the 28 Member States of the European Union (EU-28), Iceland and Norway. Data were collected with the assistance of country experts who were asked to complete forms relating to sources of cases and costs of accidents at work and work-related health problems. The resulting data were assessed against predefined quality criteria. The cost assessment was limited to an overview of availability of data. Having assessed the coverage and quality of the available data sources, it became apparent that there were insufficient data to determine cases of the work-related burden of disease at the European level. There is a paucity of robust, reliable data relating to accidents at work and work-related health problems. With regard to costs, we found that direct healthcare costs can be deduced from international data sources. Calculating indirect costs, however, would be challenging, as data relating to several additional costs and the friction period are missing. Based on the available data sources on gross salary, we recommend adopting the human capital approach. An essential prerequisite for the use of such an approach, however, is that the number of missed work days can be estimated. Despite the lack of data, some of the gaps may be filled through estimation. Suggestions for an approach to doing so can be based on the following observations: - In some countries the availability of data sources appears to be reasonably sound and may be sufficient to carry out a cautious estimation. Subsequently, these results may be used to estimate the costs in other countries with comparable structures. - Through a combination of figures on the work-related fraction of diseases, incidence and prevalence of these diseases, and costs associated with such diseases, a cost estimation may be feasible for some specific work-related diseases. - Since much research has been done on the impact of certain risk factors on specific health problems, and figures on the occurrence of certain risk factors are also available, a cost estimation by risk factor seems feasible. An approach like this may allow a partial cost estimation. However, an estimate of the total burden of work-related disease would require a considerable number of assumptions to be made.
Estimating the Cost of Accidents and Ill-health at Work
Author: Marjolein de WeerdPublisher:
ISBN: 9789292402440
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