What Occupational Injury Costs and Workers’ Compensation Tell Us About Electrical Injuries and the Need to Invest in Electrically Safer Workplaces
| Autor: | Iragaba Intwari, Wei-Jen Lee, Tammy Gammon |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
Labour economics
business.industry Compensation (psychology) Occupational injury Workers' compensation medicine.disease Investment (macroeconomics) Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Electrical Injuries Market research Income Support Control and Systems Engineering SAFER medicine Business Electrical and Electronic Engineering health care economics and organizations |
| Zdroj: | IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. 55:4377-4383 |
| ISSN: | 1939-9367 0093-9994 |
| DOI: | 10.1109/tia.2019.2907578 |
| Popis: | This paper examines the cost of occupational injury and illness and the available workers’ compensation data from four states for two purposes: To identify trends in electrical and all occupational injuries and to determine if the cost invested in electrical safety is justified. The financial costs of electrical and all occupational injuries and of workers’ compensation premiums justify investment in creating electrically safer workplaces. The workers’ compensation system and its recent trends were also studied. Although employers and society spend large sums on workplace injuries, the workers’ compensation system often fails to provide the best medical care to the injured and the level of income support needed to sustain a family. The human cost of electrical and occupational injuries demands investment in preventing injuries which can destroy lives and families. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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