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Tool 2. Cost/Benefit Check. COMFOR educative packages. Tool 2: Cost/Benefit Check. The tool helps you to monitor and estimate hidden costs related to ill health benefits from ill health prevention This is necessary to decide and invest in appropriate preventive measures. .
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Tool 2 Cost/Benefit Check Presentation 2009
COMFOR educative packages Presentation 2009
Tool 2: Cost/Benefit Check • The tool helps you to monitor and estimate • hidden costs related to ill health • benefits from ill health prevention • This is necessary to • decide and • invest in • appropriate preventive measures. Presentation 2009
SME voices about c/b-check • the illness costs become clear • good to show and discuss with the employees • useful to raise awareness of these costs • enables to quantify what could be saved thanks to appropriate measures/improvements • offers easy calculations for price negotiations • this information is essential for determining financial result of my enterprise • Money talks! Real Euros are interesting! Presentation 2009
Structure of tool The tool consists of three parts: • Input data from the company • Illness costs • Scope for investments Presentation 2009
Limitations The effort was to keep tool • simple • general therefore … Presentation 2009
… therefore • have items of limited relevance been left out • is net production value used • are logistic losses beyond the reduced performance of one machine not considered cost estimates are rather too low than too large Presentation 2009
Four sickness cases • Operator working though feeling ill reduced performance • Operator on sick leave, no replacement machine stand still • Operator on sick leave, with replacement extra costs and reduced performance • Operator have to quit forestry new recruitment Presentation 2009
Further consequences Illness during very busy periods may result in • loss of contracts • drastically reduced profits Presentation 2009
Instructions • Save a working copy of tool • Replace default values with company data in blue fields • Additional information in cells with • Automatically calculated costs appear in red fields Presentation 2009
COMPANY DATA • Salary costs • Harvester • Forwarder • Output per hour (m3 or ton) • Price per m3 or ton • Variable costs • Harvester • Forwarder • Recruitment costs Presentation 2009
Default values For guidance: Illustrative values from Finnish forestry Much better to use data from contractors own company! Where find this input data? Presentation 2009
Data to enter For harvester and forwarder operators: • Days with reduced performance • % of performance reduction • Days without production • Days with replacement • salary for replacement • % of performance reduction • % of recruitment costs caused by illness … for cases occurred during last year! Presentation 2009
Results from Tool 1: Health & Performance Check Company’s own files on sick leave Your advanced estimations … Sources of input data: COMPANY ILLNESS COSTS Presentation 2009
TOTAL COSTS A summary of the costs last year in the4 cases: Which costs may be reduced? Presentation 2009
PREVENTABLE COSTS • Change figures in blue fields The corresponding benefits appear automatically in the red fields Presentation 2009
BENEFIT CHECK Specification of ’benefits’ • Scope for annual investments in preventive measures What measures are promising? Presentation 2009
Identification of measures • Question 10 in Tool 1: Health & Performance Check • Discussions with operators • Guidance from OSH-services • Own experiences Work scheduling? Pause exercises? Job rotation? New seat? Presentation 2009
After discussion, specify for each measure: Costs Goal Indicators Responsible person Involved persons Starting date Finishing date Follow up and close Decisions table NOTE: Total available scope is displayed! Presentation 2009
Tool 2: Cost/Benefit – Check Presentation 2009