Download or read book The Economic Burden of Occupational Fatal Injuries to Civilian Workers in the United States Based on the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries 1992 2002 written by Elyce Anne Biddle and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Researchers within the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) have a longstanding commitment to determining the circumstances and costs of fatal occupational injury, reflecting the national commitment to understanding the severity and gravity of these incidents. Additional efforts have been undertaken to establish methods and recommendations to reduce the toll on our country's workers. This document continues this commitment to understanding and enumerating the dimensions of this nation's loss from fatal occupational injury. Despite the importance of fatal occupational illness, this document is limited to the economic burden of fatal occupational injuries. Beginning in 1992, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) augmented their injury surveillance efforts with a national, systematic and comprehensive surveillance system to collect information on all fatal occupational injuries in the U.S. The joint State-Federal program, the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI), was designed to record, manage, and publish data from reporting systems in all 50 States and the District of Columbia on fatal occupational injuries. NIOSH researchers integrated data from the CFOI program into their continued research efforts, beginning with the initial reporting year, and have published a number of documents related to the NIOSH mission. In addition to reporting prevalence measures of fatal occupational injury, NIOSH researchers also developed measures to capture the economic costs from these incidents. These efforts reflected underlying concerns that the full measure of such loss must include the economic component of this loss. Such a measure not only captures an important additional component of the loss experience for the worker, employer, and encompassing social structure, but may also serves to direct limited resources toward the most effective prevention strategies. The cost-of-illness method, which sums direct and indirect lifetime costs, was used to calculate the mean, median, and total societal costs for the fatal occupational injuries reported through the CFOI program. Indirect costs are calculated for each incident by accounting for median annual compensation at the time of death, the probability of survival, household production, wage growth rate adjustments, and the real discount rate. These costs are then added to the direct lifetime cost of medical expenses to arrive at the societal cost of fatal injury. The addition of the value of household production costs to this model represents advancement in methodology over previous models, which simply accounts for loss of income from wages and presents a point of departure from previous studies. In summary, the current document provides detailed information on the extent of economic loss for premature occupational fatality for the years 1992 through 2002. These estimates are based on a well-known methodology in the field of direct and indirect cost estimation that was adapted by NIOSH [Rice 1965; Rice 1966; Miller et al.1995; Rice et al.1989; Leigh et al. 2000; Finkelstein et al. 2006]. The method is grounded in economic theory and has been reviewed by experts in the fields of economic costing and surveillance systems. Detailed information within this document includes the number of fatal occupational injuries and their total, mean, and median societal costs for each State and by worker and case characteristics" - NIOSHTIC-2

Download or read book The Economic Burden of Occupational Fatal Injuries to Civilian Workers in the United States Based on the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries 1992 2002 written by Department of Health and Human Services and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-16 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The national burden imposed by occupational injury and illness encompasses numerous areas of personal and public life: It deeply affects personal well-being, it affects relationships between workers, their families, and their communities, and it affects the institutions and governing bodies of this country. This burden includes a component that is vital to overall function and health at the national, local, and personal level—the economic component of loss. To more completely understand the burden imposed by injury and illness in the workplace, it is necessary to further develop measures of the economic component of loss. This document attempts to add an economic dimension to existing research efforts addressing the incidence and prevalence measures of loss associated with fatal occupational injury. This research effort is of long standing within the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and has been previously reported in such documents as The Cost of Fatal Injuries to Civilian Workers in the United States, 1992–2001, which is based on surveillance conducted within NIOSH and which draws on counts and information from the vital statistic reporting systems across the Nation. The current document builds on this research and incorporates new information and counts from current and revised methods regarding fatal occupational injury, which are described in greater detail within the text of this document. The findings are compelling: Over the period studied, 1992–2002, the costs from these premature deaths exceeded $53 billion, an amount greater than the reportable gross domestic product for some States. These findings inform national efforts to reduce this severe toll on our nation's workers, institutions, communities, and the nation itself. Researchers and concerned parties within the occupational and public health professions, academics, organizations focusing on workplace safety, labor unions, and the business community have all proven to be willing and avid users of this data and have used this research to continue their efforts, in concert with continuing NIOSH research efforts, to reduce the great toll that fatal occupational injuries impose on our workers, workplaces, and nation.

Download or read book Appraisal and Valuation written by Pierluigi Morano and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features a selection of the best papers presented at two recent conferences organized by the SIEV (Italian Society of Appraisal and Valuation). Taking into account the current need for evaluative skills in order to make effective and sustainable investments, it highlights the multidisciplinary role of valuation, which opens the door for interactions with other sectors, scientific and professional fields. The book collects twenty-two papers, divided into three parts (Territory & Urban Planning, Real Estate Assets & the Construction Building Process, Real Estate Finance & Property Management) that reflect the main issues of interest for future urban development policies, namely: feasibility analysis for investments; selecting which decision support models to apply in complex contexts; enhancement of public and private assets; evaluating the effects produced by territorial investments; valuation approaches to properties; risk assessment; and strategies for monitoring energy consumption and soil sealing.

Download or read book A Smarter National Surveillance System for Occupational Safety and Health in the 21st Century written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The workplace is where 156 million working adults in the United States spend many waking hours, and it has a profound influence on health and well-being. Although some occupations and work-related activities are more hazardous than others and face higher rates of injuries, illness, disease, and fatalities, workers in all occupations face some form of work-related safety and health concerns. Understanding those risks to prevent injury, illness, or even fatal incidents is an important function of society. Occupational safety and health (OSH) surveillance provides the data and analyses needed to understand the relationships between work and injuries and illnesses in order to improve worker safety and health and prevent work-related injuries and illnesses. Information about the circumstances in which workers are injured or made ill on the job and how these patterns change over time is essential to develop effective prevention programs and target future research. The nation needs a robust OSH surveillance system to provide this critical information for informing policy development, guiding educational and regulatory activities, developing safer technologies, and enabling research and prevention strategies that serves and protects all workers. A Smarter National Surveillance System for Occupational Safety and Health in the 21st Century provides a comprehensive assessment of the state of OSH surveillance. This report is intended to be useful to federal and state agencies that have an interest in occupational safety and health, but may also be of interest broadly to employers, labor unions and other worker advocacy organizations, the workers' compensation insurance industry, as well as state epidemiologists, academic researchers, and the broader public health community. The recommendations address the strengths and weaknesses of the envisioned system relative to the status quo and both short- and long-term actions and strategies needed to bring about a progressive evolution of the current system.

Download or read book The Cost of Fatal Injuries to Civilian Workers in the United States 1992 2001 written by Elyce Anne Biddle and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 15. During 1999-2001, motor vehicle incidents had the highest costs for all industry divisions except Retail Trade; Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate; and Construction. As in the previous time period, the highest total costs for Retail Trade and Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate were for homicides and the highest total costs for Construction were for falls (Tables 11 and 21). 16. Without exception, air transportation incidents had the highest mean costs for each industry division from 1992-1998 (Table 22). The same was true for 1999-2001 with the exception that poisoning had the highest mean cost in the Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate industry division (Table 23). During 1992-1998, machine-related deaths were recorded as the lowest mean cost for three of the ten industry divisions - Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing; Transportation, Communication and Public Utilties; and Public Administration. Struck by falling objects had the lowest mean costs for Manufacturing and Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate, while falls had the lowest mean costs in Retail Trade and Services. Nontraffic motor vehicle incidents recorded the lowest mean cost for five of the ten industry divisions during 1999-2001 (Tables 22 and 23). 17. Out of all the occupational divisions, Precision Production/Craft/Repair (Crafts) had the highest number of fatal occupational injuries and total societal costs for 1992-2001 - 10,423 and $9.5 billion, respectively (Table 25). Furthermore, Crafts had the highest number of fatalities and total costs for each year during this period (Table 26). Similarly, Technicians/Related Support Occupations (Tech/Support) exhibited the highest mean and median costs for each year, averaging $1.4 million and $1.3 million, respectively (Tables 25 and 26). 18. Homicides had the highest total societal costs by external cause of death for four of eleven occupation divisions - Executives/Administrators/Managers, Sales, Clerical, and Service occupations - during 1992-1998. Motor vehicle incidents also had the highest total societal costs by external cause of death for three of eleven occupation divisions during this time period - Professional Specialties, Transportation/Material Movers, and Handlers/Equipment Cleaners/Helpers/ Laborers (Table 27). 19. For five of eleven occupation divisions - Executives/Administrators/Managers, Professional Specialties, Clerical, Farming/Forestry/Fishing, and Transportation/Material Movers occupations - motor vehicle incidents had the highest total societal costs for 1999-2001. For the remaining occupation divisions, homicide (Sales and Service), falls (Precision Production/Craft/Repair and Handlers, Equipment Cleaners/Helpers/Laborers), machines (Machine Operators/Assemblers/Inspectors) and air transport (Technicians/Related Support) had the highest total societal costs (Table 28). 20. The mean cost of fatal occupational injury was highest for transportation incidents (air transport, water transport, and rail transport) over the entire study period for the majority of occupation divisions, ranging from $692,000 to $1.59 million. However, the highest mean cost in any occupation division for external cause of death was $1.61 million for explosions in Professional Specialties during 1999-2001 (Tables 29-30)." - NIOSHTIC-2

Download or read book The Cost of Fatal Injuries to Civilian Workers in the United States 1992 2001 written by Department of Health and Human Services and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-16 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The burden that fatal occupational injury imposes upon society is severe and multidimensional. In addition to the human costs associated with the loss of a family member, an employee, and a coworker, there are costs that are economic in nature. No single metric can capture all the dimensions of loss, either personal or economic; it is extraordinarily difficult to measure the contribution of a family member or that of an active member of a community or group. To understand the dimensions of loss more fully, it is necessary to measure the aspects of fatal occupational injury that can be captured. Demographic data on fatal workplace injury was captured in the National Traumatic Occupational Fatality Surveillance system, maintained by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). The current document is an attempt to build upon the surveillance data by adding an economic component; the data in this monograph provide a measure of the economic loss to society from the premature deaths of workers in various economic sectors, by states, to society as a whole, over time, by cause of death, and by demographic characteristics. The findings are compelling: over the period studied, 1992–2001, the estimated costs from these premature deaths exceeded $43 billion.

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Download or read book Costs of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses written by J. Paul Leigh and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the debate over health care reform continues, costs have become a critical measure in the many plans and proposals to come before us. Knowing costs is important because it allows comparisons across such disparate health conditions as AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, heart disease, and cancer. This book presents the results of a major study estimating the large and largely overlooked costs of occupational injury and illness--costs as large as those for cancer and over four times the costs of AIDS. The incidence and mortality of occupational injury and illness were assessed by reviewing data from national surveys and applied an attributable-risk-proportion method. Costs were assessed using the human capital method that decomposes costs into direct categories such as medical costs and insurance administration expenses, as well as indirect categories such as lost earnings and lost fringe benefits. The total is estimated to be $155 billion and is likely to be low as it does not include costs associated with pain and suffering or of home care provided by family members. Invaluable as an aid in the analysis of policy issues, Costs of Occupational Injuryand Illness will serve as a resource and reference for economists, policy analysts, public health researchers, insurance administrators, labor unions and labor lawyers, benefits managers, and environmental scientists, among others. J. Paul Leigh is Professor in the School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of California, Davis. Stephen Markowitz, M.D., is Professor in the Department of Community Health and Social Medicine, City University of New York Medical School. Marianne Fahs is Director of the Health Policy Research Center, Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, New School University. Philip Landrigan, M.D., is Wise Professor and Chair of the Department of Community Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York.

Download or read book The Construction Chart Book written by CPWR--The Center for Construction Research and Training and published by Cpwr - The Center for Construction Research and Training. This book was released on 2008 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Construction Chart Book presents the most complete data available on all facets of the U.S. construction industry: economic, demographic, employment/income, education/training, and safety and health issues. The book presents this information in a series of 50 topics, each with a description of the subject matter and corresponding charts and graphs. The contents of The Construction Chart Book are relevant to owners, contractors, unions, workers, and other organizations affiliated with the construction industry, such as health providers and workers compensation insurance companies, as well as researchers, economists, trainers, safety and health professionals, and industry observers.