Title
The value of OSH: Estimating the societal costs of work-related injuries and diseases
Author
Tompa, E.
Mofidi, A.
van den Heuvel, S.
van Bree, T.
Michaelsen, F.
Jung, Y.
Porsch, L.
van Emmerik, M.
Publication year
2019
Abstract
Insight into the financial consequences of work-related injuries and diseases provides governments, policy makers and employers’ organisations with relevant data for the purpose of developing OSH policies and agreements. Also, insight into these costs will help to raise awareness of the magnitude of the problem and will contribute to a more efficient allocation of resources for OSH. Different methods are developed to estimate these costs. A bottom-up model builds up from components of costs to total costs. In a top-down model the total costs are estimated via the total burden of injury and disease, and the estimated fraction that was caused by occupational factors. This article describes two models to estimate the costs of work/related injuries and disease, one following a bottom up model, one following a top/down model. Results of the models are shown of five European countries; Finland, Germany The Netherlands, Italy and Poland.
Subject
Resilient Organisations
WHC - Work, Health and Care
ELSS - Earth, Life and Social Sciences
Work and Employment
Healthy Living
Occupational health
Occupational safety
Work-related injuries
Costs
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TNO identifier
868045
Document type
other