Ewa Lidén Kassel Project No Presentation 2009 Tool 2 Cost/Benefit Check

Ewa Lidén Kassel Project No Presentation 2009 Tool 1: Health & Performance Tool 2: Cost/Benefit Tool 3: WORX for SMes Tool 4: Skills (contractor) Tool 5: Skills (operator) Tool 6: Ergo-Check Tool 7: Sitting- Check COMFOR educative packages

Ewa Lidén Kassel Project No Presentation 2009 Tool 2: Cost/Benefit Check The tool helps you to monitor and estimate hidden costs related to ill health benefits from ill health prevention This is necessary to decide and invest in appropriate preventive measures.

Ewa Lidén Kassel Project No Presentation 2009 SME voices about c/b-check – the illness costs become clear – good to show and discuss with the employees – useful to raise awareness of these costs – enables to quantify what could be saved thanks to appropriate measures/improvements – offers easy calculations for price negotiations – this information is essential for determining financial result of my enterprise – Money talks! Real Euros are interesting!

Ewa Lidén Kassel Project No Presentation 2009 Structure of tool 1.Input data from the company 2.Illness costs 3.Scope for investments The tool consists of three parts:

Ewa Lidén Kassel Project No Presentation 2009 Limitations The effort was to keep tool simple general therefore …

Ewa Lidén Kassel Project No Presentation 2009 … therefore have items of limited relevance been left out is net production value used are logistic losses beyond the reduced performance of one machine not considered cost estimates are rather too low than too large

Ewa Lidén Kassel Project No Presentation 2009 Four sickness cases 1.Operator working though feeling ill reduced performance 2.Operator on sick leave, no replacement machine stand still 3.Operator on sick leave, with replacement extra costs and reduced performance 4.Operator have to quit forestry new recruitment

Ewa Lidén Kassel Project No Presentation 2009 Further consequences Illness during very busy periods may result in loss of contracts drastically reduced profits

Ewa Lidén Kassel Project No Presentation 2009 Instructions 1.Save a working copy of tool 2.Replace default values with company data in blue fields 3.Additional information in cells with 4.Automatically calculated costs appear in red fields

Ewa Lidén Kassel Project No Presentation 2009 COMPANY DATA 1.Salary costs Harvester Forwarder 2.Output per hour (m 3 or ton) 3.Price per m 3 or ton 4.Variable costs Harvester Forwarder 5.Recruitment costs

Ewa Lidén Kassel Project No Presentation 2009 Default values Much better to use data from contractors own company! For guidance: Illustrative values from Finnish forestry Where find this input data?

Ewa Lidén Kassel Project No Presentation 2009 Data to enter 1.Days with reduced performance % of performance reduction 2.Days without production 3.Days with replacement salary for replacement % of performance reduction 4.% of recruitment costs caused by illness For harvester and forwarder operators: … for cases occurred during last year!

Ewa Lidén Kassel Project No Presentation 2009 COMPANY ILLNESS COSTS Results from Tool 1: Health & Performance Check Companys own files on sick leave Your advanced estimations … Sources of input data:

Ewa Lidén Kassel Project No Presentation 2009 TOTAL COSTS A summary of the costs last year in the 4 cases: Total illness cost Which costs may be reduced?

Ewa Lidén Kassel Project No Presentation 2009 PREVENTABLE COSTS 1.Change figures in blue fields The corresponding benefits appear automatically in the red fields

Ewa Lidén Kassel Project No Presentation 2009 BENEFIT CHECK Scope for annual investments in preventive measures Specification of benefits What measures are promising?

Ewa Lidén Kassel Project No Presentation 2009 Identification of measures 1.Question 10 in Tool 1: Health & Performance Check 2.Discussions with operators 3.Guidance from OSH-services 4.Own experiences New seat? Work scheduling? Job rotation? Pause exercises?

Ewa Lidén Kassel Project No Presentation 2009 Decisions table After discussion, specify for each measure: 1.Costs 2.Goal 3.Indicators 4.Responsible person 5.Involved persons 6.Starting date 7.Finishing date 8.Follow up and close NOTE: Total available scope is displayed!

Ewa Lidén Kassel Project No Presentation 2009 Tool 2: Cost/Benefit – Check Field of applicationEstimating scope for ergonomic investments Type of toolCalculation tool, basis for decisions DocumentsExcel file Frequency (recommended) Yearly, or when following up investments