Posted By Kate Graham Hi all Could anyone please help me find some hard facts (preferably with £ signs in them) to explain why it is better to provide a decent quality chair to office workers as standard in place of the most basic model (the sort that are constantly working loose and falling apart and generating moans)? I'm familiar with all the reasons in principle why a decent chair should be provided but I need some figures to back them up, in order to prove that the additional expenditure is worthwhile. I'm not thinking of people with existing back problems here (I deal with that on an individual basis) but of prevention, and also of reduced need for replacement. Can anyone point me to some convincing quantitative evidence please - either publicly available or from your own organisation? Thanks in advance Kate

Posted By Paul Durkin Thanks Dean, I am interested in the £-figures you gave i.e.£1800 & £20,000 cost of an 'average' accident. Is there such 'average' figs for a 'simple' one day accident(slops/trips/falls)? Say £60/h = £480 + replacement costs ? plus form filling,etc. ? Regards, Paul