Direct loss costs include the following
- Workers’ Compensation and Occupational health costs
Indirect loss costs include the following
- Time spent at & traveling to and from doctor’s visits
- Reduced output after return to work until 100% performance is achieved (productivity loss)
- Cost of overtime to pick up “slack” of the injured worker
- Time lost by non-injured workers supporting the workload
- Reduced output of replacement employee(s) (ramp-up period)
- Time cost for supervisor and HR for management of the injury
What can you as an Employer do to insure a cost effective, cost productive, minimize lost work days workforce? How can ergonomics and musculoskeletal injuries be dealt with more effective? Ask us.
Steve Thompson, ARM
www.ergohealthy.com