Creation and development of occupational safety and health management systems at enterprises

The Committee on Labour of Leningrad Region and ILO Moscow have developed a new technique of assessing actual costs and losses caused by occupational accidents at enterprises. The method has been tested and approved by enterprises. As many as 11 regional enterprises took part in this project and in general 58 occupational accidents were analyzed with the help of the new technique. Before using this technique the employers believed that they had incurred direct losses only in 4 out of 58 cases, since the equipment damage took place there. However, the new technique takes into account not only direct but also indirect losses that are four times as high as the direct ones.