WORK ACCIDENT COSTS . SECURITY, HEALTHCARE AND HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENTS LINKS .
Author(s)
Tanaka GK1, Alves TF2, Coan MF2, Lozovey JC3, Tanaka F2, Tanaka E4
1PEQUENO PRINCIPE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, CURITIBA , PARANÁ , BRAZIL, Brazil, 2FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ, CURITIBA , PARANÁ , BRAZIL, Brazil, 3UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO PARANÁ, CURITIBA , PARANÁ, Brazil, 4ICS, CURITIBA , PARANÁ , BRAZIL, Brazil
INTRODUCTION : Workplace accidents are important in the day-to-day of a productive society. Security, Healthcare and Human Resources Departments (SHHS) struggle to show that they are not part of a company merely to follow rules, laws and regulations that might be established, but that they are a group of people, a team, with the same goal: warn the employees of a company about the risks and consequences of work-related accidents. OBJECTIVES: Show the importance of SHHS, presenting work accident costs. METHODS: In the present work, two types of expenses in a food company were considered: the costs of lost hours due to work accidents with leave of absence in a one year period; and the costs with medical supplies, medicines and worker’s health. RESULTS: A total of 12 workers required a leave of absence after work-related accidents. The period of absence of these 12 workers totaled 1,568 days. Average worker’s salary = $1,500.00 Brazilian reals. A total of 220 hours worked/month. $6.80 Brazilian reals/hour/worker. Daily hours of work = 8.5 hours. A total of 13,328 lost hours/year. Therefore, the costs of lost hours due to work accidents totaled $90,900.00 Brazilian reals. The costs with medical supplies, medicines and worker’s health totaled $11,055.89 Brazilian reals. These costs were calculates with invoices from the drug stores and from the company that provides emergency care services. The highest corporate cost and the Accident Insurance Factor (Fator Acidentário Previdenciário) totaled $1,190,749.00 Brazilian reals. CONCLUSIONS: Occupational physicians need more information about the emergency care costs of work-related accidents. Today, the integration between Healthcare, Security and Human Resources is necessary before the post-report awareness of the cost and expenses of the accidents occurred.
Conference/Value in Health Info
2017-11, ISPOR Europe 2017, Glasgow, Scotland
Value in Health, Vol. 20, No. 9 (October 2017)
Code
PRM37
Topic
Economic Evaluation
Topic Subcategory
Cost/Cost of Illness/Resource Use Studies
Disease
Multiple Diseases