The Hidden Cost of a Workplace Fatalities: 43 Billion Dollars

While even the non-fatal injury can cost a company ten’s of thousands of dollars (as noted in OHShub.com’s post: The Hidden Cost of Unsafe Behavior: Running the Numbers, even more unbelievable is the cost of a fatality.  NIOSH has produced a document entitled, The Cost of Fatal Injuries to Civilian Workers in the [...]

The Hidden Cost of Unsafe Behavior – Running the Numbers

According to information provided in a report by a nationwide insurance company, approximately 60% of company executives figure that their companies save $3 for every dollar spent on safety programs.  A $10,000,000.00 company that spends 1% of their budget on safety can figure to save approximately $300,000.00.  OSHA puts the figure to be [...]

OHSAS 18001 in Plain English

OHSAS 18001 2007 is an occupational health and safety management standard that define a set of occupational health and safety (OH&S) management requirements for occupational health and safety management systems (OHSMS).

OHSAS 18001 2007 was developed by the OHSAS Project Group, a consortium of 43 organizations from 28 countries. This consortium includes [...]