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The cost of workplace injuries is enormous. In 1992 the U.S. economy lost 115.9 billion from work-related accidents 62.5 billion from wage and productivity losses, 22.0 billion from medical costs, 14.5 billion from administration expenses, 3.4 billion from motor vehicle damages, 10.2 billion from indirect employer costs, and 3.3 billion from fire losses (National Safety Council 1993). In addition to monetary losses, work injuries cause pain and suffering and frequently result in permanent disabilities that impede the normal enjoyment of life. The National Safety Council (1993) estimated that for every dollar of monetary loss accidents lower the quality of life on average by two dollars. With a two-to-one quality-of-life loss ratio the total cost of workplace accidents in 1992 was 347.7 billion, about 5.8 percent of 1992 U.S. GDP. 

Branday et al. [28] reported that 562 patients with acute chemical injuries were admitted to 8 regional hospitals in Jamaica during a 10-year period from 1981-1990 [28]. Chemical bums comprised 13.3% of all bum patients admitted during this time period. Nearly half (236 cases 42%) of these chemical bums resulted from deliberate assault, while only 10 of the total chemical bum cases (1.8%) were the result of work-related accidents. In one of the smdy hospitals, 38% of bum admissions were due to chemical bums and 2/3 of these were due to deliberate chemical assaults. Assailants were more likely to be female and victims were either male or other women over disputes involving a relationship with a male partner [28]. 

For the lower estimate, Leger assumed that the same proportion of injuries and fatalities resulted from maximum sleepiness-induced work-related accidents... 

Every few minutes somebody in the world dies from work-related causes and every year hundreds of thousands of employees are involved from injuries during work activities. The potential financial devastation caused by the costs associated with accidents necessitates the adoption of an improvement process in the areas of safety, health, and environmental protection. During the last years high technological progresses have been made about safety and health in working activities. Even if the safety rules have became stricter and the concept of risk assessment is now well established and forms the basis of health and safety legislation, the work injury is still a big problem as it is clearly shows by statistics related to many terrible events. 

In the expected utility function (B3.1) P determines the loss of utility from a work-related accident or disease resulting in death or total disability, income held constant. Higher values of P imply greater ex ante utility from the provision for survivors, for example. Because the bequest motive is likely to be small we set P = 0.1 in the simulations. Workers experience a nine-tenths utility loss from an injury holding income constant. 

Occupational Injury Any personal injury, disease, or death that results from a work-related accident. 

A Swiss study examined the epidemiology and costs of work-related bums [18]. These authors found that 4.6 % of all accidents in Switzerland were bums and that 3 % of all work-related accidents were bums. Based on population demographics, they estimated approximately 36,000 bum injuries per year with 5 % of these requiring hospital admission and one-third of those reqniring treatment in a specialized bum center. Of 6,814 bum injuries in 1984, 58 % (3,952) were work related. The total cost for bum care was 17.7 million Swiss Francs, with 19 % for medical care and the rest for other compensation. These anthors did not separate chemical skin injuries from other bum etiologies [18]. 

Q. An employee who performs office clerical work injures her knee in a work-related accident. She has out-patient surgery one month after the knee injury and is released hy her doctor with the only restriction being May work at home. The company sets up a computer and forwards her business phone to the employee s house so she can work while recovering from surgery. 

According to International Labour Organization every day, 6,300 people die due to occupational accidents or work-related diseases, what constitutes more than 2.3 million deaths per year. In addition, 313 million accidents happen on the job yearly what often leads to extended absences from work. The human cost of accidents is estimated at 4 per cent of global Gross Domestic Product each year (Safety at work 2013). Thus, there is a need to increase the awareness of the scope and consequences of work-related accidents, injuries and diseases, and make an attempt to find an explanation for them and their causes. 

Workers Compensation laws ensure that employees injured or disabled on the job receive appropriate monetary benefits, eliminating the need for litigation. These laws also provide benefits for dependents of those workers who are killed because of work-related accidents or illnesses. Some laws also protect employers and fellow workers by limiting the amount an injured employee can recover from an employer and by eliminating the liability of coworkers in most accidents. State Workers Compensation statutes establish this framework for most employment. Federal statutes are limited to federal employees or those workers employed in some significant aspect of interstate commerce. The injury or illness must have resulted from employment. 

Accidents and work related ill-health cost the British economy between 6 billion and 12 billion per year. 30 million days are lost each year from work related injuries and ill-health. 

The OSHA incidence rate provides information on all types of work-related injuries and illnesses, including fatalities. This provides a better representation of worker accidents than systems based on fatalities alone. For instance, a plant might experience many small accidents with resulting injuries but no fatalities. On the other hand, fatality data cannot be extracted from the OSHA incidence rate without additional information. 

Alcohol abuse in the United States costs an estimated 170 billion each year. Close to half of this figure is due to a loss in workplace productivity resulting from illness and work-related injury. Other contributing factors are alcohol-related health care expenses costing society over 26 million and automobile accidents estimated at 15 million. Fifty percent of the adults in prison are incarcerated for crimes that are alcohol related. Alco-... 

Decision-makers have sometimes found presentations of comparative risk information a useful aid to the public discourse on risk acceptance. We referred in the last section, for example, to OSHA s use of statistics on the risks of job-related accidents to support decisions on risk reduction goals for workplace carcinogens. The agency noted that lifetime risks of death from injuries suffered in what most people perceive to be safe occupations do not go below about 1 per 1000. Data of these types were helpful in explaining why the agency settled on carcinogen risk levels in this range as sufficiently low to provide a safe work environment. 

When eomparing outcome indicators related to HSE, it is also important to note differences in how they are defined and reported. For instance, what does reported injuries mean Do they only include injuries leading to absence from work, or all injuries Are serious accidents and fatal accidents included Does lost time injuries mean absence in three days or in more Is reporting voluntary or mandatory ... 

Indemnity Case Rate, which is a negative metric providing the rate of all workers compensation cases that involve lost time payments per 100 full time employees per year. It may be indicative of the company s basic prevention and reduction efforts in minimizing more serious lost time case incidence and severity. It relates closely to OSHA s DART or rate of injuries and illnesses resulting in days away from work, restricted work activity, and/or job transfer. According to Italian National Standards UNI 7249 (UNI 2007) further index rates are introduced, like incidence index of occurred accidents, defined as rate of occurred accidents per 1.000 workers, frequency index (rate of occurred accidents per 1.000.000 hours worked), severity index of accidents, which represents 1000 times total number of lost days per hours worked. 

Despite new legislation, improved information, education and training, accidents at work do still happen. An accident may be defined as an uncontrolled event causing injury or damage to an individual or property. An accident can nearly always be avoided if correct procedures and methods of working are followed. Any accident which results in an absence from work for more than three days or causes a major injury or death is notifiable to the HSE. There are more than 40,000 accidents reported to the HSE each year which occur as a result of some building-related activity. To avoid having an accident you should ... 

The Port of Kemi Ltd. is a small workplace it only employs about 35 people. Its job descriptions vary from normal office work to more physical and outdoor port officer tasks. The possible harm related to office work comes mainly from static muscular tension that is commonly caused by using a computer. Disorder and untidiness indoors may cause falls and thus injuries slippery conditions due to cold weather and inadequate gritting outdoors may cause falls as well. For port officers, the job includes operating outdoors, which exposes them to cold weather and its attendant problems. Operations on the piers and ships carry with them the hazards of falling and traffic-related accidents. The constant movement in the port resembles that of a busy factory and so the risks are about the same. Being hit by a car, train, or moving machinery comprises a potential cause of a severe damage. 

Q. If an employee who sustains a work-related injury requiring days away from work is terminated for drug use based on the results of a post-accident drug test, how is the case recorded May the employer stop the day count upon termination of the employee for drug use under 1904.7(b)(3)(vii) ... 

A. Under 1904.7(b)(3)(vii), the employer may stop cormting days away from work if an employee who is away from work because of an injury or illness leaves the company for some reason unrelated to the injruy or illness, such as retirement or a plant closing. However, when the employer conducts a drug test based on the occmrence of an accident resulting in an injury at work and subsequently terminates the injured employee, the termination is related to the injury. Therefore, the employer must estimate the number of days that the employee would have been away from work due to the injury and enter that number on the 300 Log. 

The next requirement for the company is an accident register. This is a record of all DOT-recordable accidents the company has been involved in over the previous three years. This accident register is a separate requirement from the OSHA Form 300 Illness and Injury log. The OSHA illness and injury log tracks only work-related illnesses and injuries. The FMCSA-required accident register only tracks accidents the company was involved in meeting the FMCSA s definition of an accident. An accident, as far as the FMCSA is concerned, is any occurrence involving a commercial vehicle operating in commerce (on the road) that involved ... 

Fatalities from electrical incidents account for about 6% of all work-related fatal accidents, with the overall accident statistics being dominated by injuries sustained from being struck by vehicles and by slips, trips and falls. In contrast, non-fatal electrical injuries account for just 0.5% of all non-fatal injuries. This is probably because many electric shock incidents go unreported - the consequences of an electric shock tend to be either very severe or the victim is able to walk away from it. 

Individual accident reports, sometimes referred to as Form 45s, employee accidents reports, or supervisor accident reports, should be filled out for every accident. Each state typically has workers compensation guidelines that require reporting any work-related injury within a certain time frame. If your organization has not been keeping these records, you can expect a variety of things to happen. First, you will probably get bills from hospital emergency rooms for treatment for... 

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