They say you can't put a price on safety, but if you're in charge of safety budgets, you know that's not true. When it's time to equip or replace your company's safety gear, the cost is spelled out in neat columns on your spreadsheet. Here you move numbers around, trying this trick or that to ensure that expenditure numbers match budget numbers and you're in the black. After all, you don't want to spend more than you have to. However, this approach only considers one part of the equation. If your calculations don't account for the price of injuries, you're not getting the whole picture.

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the real cost
of cuts

2. the leading workplace injury
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cause of
work-related
emergency room
admissions
are wrist
& hand injuries
1

3. a complex, intricate structure
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Hands are complex structures, full
of delicate bones and an intricate
network of ligaments and muscles.
Even a small cut in the wrongplace
can do irreparable, life-changing
damage to somebody's hand.
Every timea worker sustains a cut,
the associated costs start adding up

4. mounting costs, premiums, and fines
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Cuts can be costly -- startingwith emergency care
and rehabilitation,eventually resultingin higher
insurancepremiums2 and possibleOSHA fines, which
are expected to risethis year3.

5. Sources: 1 Work-Related Hand and Wrist Injuries in Australia. (2008). Retrieved from
http://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/sites/SWA/about/Publications/Documents/202/WorkRelatedHandandWristInjuriesinAustralia_2
008_PDF.pdf
2 From http://www.hg.org/article.asp?id=29700
3 From http://www.safetyandhealthmagazine.com/articles/13258-osha-fines-to-increase-significantly
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