Cost of Job-Related Illnesses Exceeds Costs of All Cancers, Diabetes and Strokes
A new NIOSH-funded study from J. Paul Leigh, a professor of public health sciences at the University of California – Davis, determined that the cost of job-related injuries and illnesses is $250 billion, which is $31 billion more than the cost of all cancers and $76 billion more than the cost of diabetes. The study results beg the question: Is industry and the federal government doing enough to eliminate occupational injuries and illnesses and their associated costs?
Source : http://ehstoday.com/safety/management/skyrocketing-cost-occupational-injuries-0117/?imw=Y