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Studies
show that promoting a safe workplace not only saves lives, it saves
money as well. The New Jersey Laborers Health and Safety Fund is
a strong supporter of OSHA's Safety Pays program, which outlines
the real costs of injuries. Think it's expensive to keep a safe
worksite? It cost a lot more to work unsafe.
Safety Pays Program
(Developed August 1998)
OSHA's
"SAFETY PAYS" program is interactive software developed
by OSHA to assist employers in assessing the impact of occupational
injuries and illnesses (with Lost Work Days) on their profitability.
It uses a company's profit margin, the AVERAGE costs of an injury
or illness, and an indirect cost multiplier to project the amount
of sales a company would need to generate in order to cover those
costs.
The
System:
* prompts users for information to do the analysis,
* offers choices from a set of Lost Work Day injuries and illnesses,
* links to definitions of those injuries and illnesses,
* writes a report of the costs and the sales needed to cover those
costs,
* pulls up NotePad, so users can view and print their reports, and
* runs on monitors set for 640x480, or 800x600 with Small Font.
How
To Install Safety Pays
The OSHA Safety Pays Expert System for Windows is distributed as
a single file, safety.exe. It will take about 18 minutes to download
with a 28,800 baud modem.
- FIRST,
open EXPLORE (or other file manager) and make a new folder named
C:\TEMPSAFE.
- Download
the software file, safety.exe,(by clicking on the download link
below) and SAVE it in the new folder.
- Go
to C:\TEMPSAFE and double click on safety.exe. The install wizard
will guide you through the setup.
- Go
to START, Programs, and then OSHA Advisors then Safety Pays Expert
Advisor then Run Safety Pays Expert Advisor to run the program.
If
you need to save hard disk space, you can delete safety.exe and
C:\TEMPSAFE.
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Click here to DOWNLOAD "SAFETY
PAYS" (for PC
with Windows)
OSHA
welcomes comments and suggestions on this software and the other
OSHA Advisors. Please e-mail your comments and suggestions to: Edward.Stern@osha.gov
or mail comments to:
SAFETY
PAYS
c/o Edward Stern
OSHA, N3507
200 Constitution Avenue NW
Washington, DC. 20210
SAFETY
PAYS was developed by OSHA Field and National Office staff, William
Bice, Len Renner, Bob Burt, Hugh Conway, and Edward Stern, with
advice and assistance from Jay Bagley, Administrator of the Utah
State Plan. The software was programmed by Edward Stern with assistance
of Rodger Knaus, Ph.D., and uses Tailor, a logical text mark-up
language from Instant Recall, Inc.
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Click
here
to visit the OSHA Web site.
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