Posted By Kevin Vinson As part of the revitalising health & safety plan the HSE are designing an interactive website and leaflet to help employers understand and calculate the costs of occupational injuries and ill health. According to the HSE website the completion date for this is presently anticipated to be in February 2002. I hope this helps Regards Kevin

Posted By Ciaran McAleenan Peter, Below I have reproduced a response I made to Andrew Scargill on a similar topic a week or two back. Hope you find it useful. ------ ORIGINAL POSTING BELOW ------- In an earlier version of the UK’s HSE guidance “The Costs of Accidents at Work” there was a system for surveying the costs of accidents. It isn’t in the most recent version so I don’t know whether it was discredited or too onerous a task for the net benefit received from applying it. Whatever the reason there were some bits of information contained in it that may be of some use to you. Firstly it is important to establish whether the accident involved a lost production output, if for instance the losses are subsequently made good and the orders are completed. The guidance makes the point that if the marginal value of production is taken to be equal to the marginal cost of labour then the “Opportunity Cost” of no production is the net cost for labour, paid for no production. The “financial cost is the actual additional cost paid to achieve the production required. With that in mind the details of extra costs incurred could include; · Contracted out work (Was it necessary? And what was the cost?) · In-house labour costs for remedial work (repairs, extra tests etc.) · Plant/ Equipment costs for remedial work (hired or purchased for the job) · Materials, spares, consumables used (What was needed? What was lost?) . Enhancements (Consider whether any routine work may have been completed during remedial work. This should be registered as a saving). · Within your company there may be particular costs/ savings as a result. Don’t forget them. I have the HSE document in my archive. If you need any more detail just let me know. Best wishes Ciaran