1. Safety Is Everybody's Business

2. Safety & Health Add Value….
To Your….
Business
Workplace
Life

3. Safety & Health Add Value to Your Business:
Reduce injury/illness costs by 20% to 40%
“We can’t make a quality product with an unsafe process.”
Ken Lindgren, DACO, Incorporated
Businesses spend $170 billion a year on costs associated with occupational injuries and illnesses.
These cost can be the difference between operating in the black and running in the red.
Injuries and illnesses increase workers’ compensation and retraining costs, absenteeism and faulty product.
They also decrease productivity, morale, and profits.
Businesses operate more efficiently when they implement effective safety and health management systems.

4. Safety & Health Add Value to Your Workplace:
Fewer Injuries
Rated as better places to work
More satisfied, more productive employees
Workplaces with active safety and health leadership have fewer injuries, are often rated “better places to work,” and have more satisfied, more productive employees.
These employees return to work more quickly after an injury or illness and produce higher-quality products and services.
Safe environments improve employee moral, which often leads to increased productivity and better service.
Lost production from injuries and illnesses costs companies $60 billion each year.
“It makes sense to run an effective safety and health program because your people deserve it, your customers demand it, and your business practices and future will not be there without it.”
Dan Fergus, Genesee Stampings

5. Safety & Health Add Value to Your Life:
Every injury prevented is a person kept whole
Every life saved is a family preserved in tact
Promotes healthy workers whose job become a vehicle for making a life-not just a living
Millions of Americans work hard every day so they can build a better life for their families. MOSH helps to make sure that they return to their families in the same condition they began their day.
Safe workplaces not only save life, they promote successful, vibrant lives.
Workers who suffer a disabling injury can lose 40 percent of their income over five years.
Families can lose even more because of the increased stress, conflict, and divorce associated with occupational injury and illness.
“I want to see and hear my grandchildren, and because of the safety program at Curtis Lumber, I’m going to be able to.”
John Meier, Curtis Lumber

6. Why Worry about Safety? Why do you need to be concerned about safety?
Loss WC
Pain!
EPA
$$$$
DOL
Lost time
Hurt

7. Why Worry: Common Reasons
Getting hurt isn’t fun!!!
Not All Pain is Gain Nobody likes getting hurt Healthy employees are more productive employees

8. Why Worry: Common Reasons
Getting hurt isn’t fun!!!
Cost of Accidents

9. TOTAL COST OF LOST TIME INJURIES AND OCCUPATIONAL DEATHS
Total Costs USA = $121,000,000,000
Source: National Safety Council, 1996

10. Cost of Accidents: Total Cost of Injuries
Direct costs
Indirect costs
Cost range
Up to $4 indirect for every $1 direct
Accidents are more expensive than many of us realize. Why? Because there are lots of hidden costs.
Direct Cost – Costs covered by insurance (i.e. Medical Costs, Medication, Lost Wages.
Indirect Cost – Costs not covered by insurance (Investigations, Downtime (schedule delays, added administrative time, lower morale, increased absenteeism, and poorer customer relations), Hiring/Training New Employees, etc, repairing damaged equipment or property.
Various studies have stated that Indirect Costs can be from 1 to 10 times the cost of Direct Costs.
© 2003 Texas Mutual Insurance Co.

11. Hidden Cost of Accidents
Titanic $1
$4 or more
Hidden cost like the bulk of the iceberg are buried below the surface.

12. Hidden Cost of Accidents
Indirect Costs:
4 or more times direct cost
Not typically covered by insurance
Deducted from company profit margin $1
Titanic
$4 or more

13. To pay for an accident with a total cost of $500
A soft drink bottler would have to bottle and sell over 61,000 cans of soda
A food packer would have to can and sell over 235,000 cans of corn
A bakery would have to bake and sell over 235,000 donuts
A contractor would have to pour and finish 3,000 square feet of concrete
A ready-mix company would have to deliver 20 truckloads of concrete
A paving contractor must lay 900 feet of two-lane asphalt road

14. True Cost of Accidents Accident Description
An ironworker was directing the placement of a rebar bundle unloaded from a flatbed in the laydown yard. While backing up, the worker tripped in a small hole as the bundle was being lowered to the ground. The worker twisted his ankle and badly bruised his foot.
The crane operator was able to lift the load quickly off his foot while a few other workers in the area came to assist him. The crane operator and 3 other workers stopped activity to help carry the injured worker to the foreman’s truck for transport to the clinic.
The injury required an initial visit to the clinic for x-rays and treatment, and 2 follow-up visits prior to the worker being released with no work restrictions. He lost 2 days of work.

15. Direct (Insured) Accident Costs
Medical Treatment $250
No Lost-Time Benefits $0
Temporary Income Benefits-TIBs

16. Indirect (Hidden) Accident Costs
Description
Cost
Injury occurred at 8:00 am; ironworker did not return to work that day but was paid for the rest of his shift.
7 $18/hour =
$126
Crane operator and 3 workers assisted and carried injured worker to the truck.
4 x ½ $18/hour =
$36
Foreman drove worker to clinic, stayed with him during treatment, and drove back to the jobsite.
3 $20/hour =
$60
45 other workers stopped activity during accident.
¼ $18/hour =
$202

17. Indirect (Hidden) Accident Costs
Description
Cost
Injured worker returned to work 2 days later but worked at about 60% efficiency for the next 2 weeks.
0.4 x 80 $18/hour =
$576
Inexperienced ironworker replaced the injured worker at about 75% efficiency.
0.25 x 16 $18/hour =
$72
Safety director came from another project to conduct the accident investigation, interviewing all workers involved in or witnessing the accident.
4 $75/hour =
$300
Administration of the claim by support staff.
4 $10/hour =
$40

18. Indirect (Hidden) Accident Costs
Total Hours Spent For Accident 68 Hours
Total Indirect Costs $1,412
About 5.5 times the DIRECT COSTS!

19. More cost of accidents Company Premium Experience Modifier
Final Premium
Projected
5+ years X
$100,000
1.0
$500,000 Y
0.8
$80,000
$400,000 Z
2.0
$200,000
$1,000,000
Company Z receives no more WC coverage than company X or Y.
Company Z makes up the additional $500K/$600K from ? Bottom line….
A 0.8 EMOD = 20%/yr savings. 20% X 5 yrs. = annual premium
Don’t forget the cost of m-o-n-e-y !

20. Why Worry: Common Reasons
Getting hurt isn’t fun!!!
Cost of Accidents
Legal Issues and Liability

21. Legal Issues and Liability
As a result of safety violations:
You can be named in a lawsuit
Criminal charges may be filed against you
You can be cited by an enforcement agency
You can be fined by an enforcement agency
Your workplace can be shut down by an enforcement agency

22. Legal Issues and Liability
Because of personal liability, and you can be named as a defendant in a lawsuit

23. Legal Issues and Liability
You can have criminal charges filed against you.
Negligent supervisors and employers have been charged with manslaughter

24. Legal Issues and Liability
You can be cited by an enforcement agency
Your State Department of Labor (DOL)
EPA/MDE
Federal/State OSHA has authority to get involved

25. Legal Issues and Liability
You can be fined by an enforcement agency
Federal/State OSHA will issue citations first
There is current legislation to increase penalties
EPA will levy fines…
These get real expensive

26. Legal Issues and Liability
Cease and desist orders: if the violations are serious enough, agencies such as DOL, OSHA, and the EPA can (and will) shut down the job site until the problems are corrected.

27. So how do you protect yourself?
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28. Understanding Accident Causes
Accidents are caused by:
Unsafe conditions
Unsafe acts

29. Accident Causes Unsafe Conditions
Easiest to correct (and very cost effective)
Easiest to prevent
Safety audits
Safety inspections
Maintenance schedules for equipment
Encouraging employee reporting
Good housekeeping

30. Accident Causes Unsafe Acts Most difficult to address
Changing behavior isn’t easy
Best prevented by developing a “safety culture”

31. Safety Cultures Establish accountability for safety
Define safety responsibilities

32. Establishing Accountability: Performance Evaluations
Employees should be evaluated on their safety performance
Doing a job correctly includes doing it safely
Company job description revisions may include generic job descriptions with:
“Must follow all general and safety policies and procedures as established by the department, college/division, and university.”

33. Establishing Accountability
Charge back systems
Safety goals
Accident costs
Equipment damage
Lost time
Accident rates
First aid #s
Workers comp #s
Loss ratios (including automobile rates)
Safety Activities
Safety meetings, inspections, using PPE

34. Defining Accountability
Written Work Rules (Safety & Health Program)
Effectively Communicated (Training Program)
Progressively Enforced

35. Hurt at Work You've carefully thought out all the angles.
You've done it a thousand times.
It comes naturally to you.
You know what you're doing, its what you've been trained to do your whole life.
Nothing could possibly go wrong, right ?

36. Think Again!

37. No beavers were actually injured during the generation of this PowerPoint presentation!

38. You are the most important safety device in your company.
Thank you
You are the most important safety device in your company.
Drive Safely!
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