@article{ref1,
title="Economic assessment of occupational injuries in furniture industries",
journal="Safety science",
year="1994",
author="Rundmo, Torbjørn and Soderqvist, A.",
volume="18",
number="1",
pages="33-43",
abstract="A total of 39 furniture manufacturing firms in Norway and Sweden were sampled for a study of occupational accidents. All injuries occurring in the course of one year were investigated (n = 246) and accident costs were calculated. The firms studied covered 20% of the total number of employees in this industry. The main objective of this paper is to compare two models for costing accidents: the market-pricing model and the spare capacity model. The latter was devised in pursuit of the project aims. In-plant costs calculated with the spare-capacity model were two to five times those arrived at using the market-pricing model. The spare-capacity model most realistically reflected true costs. When the conventional market-pricing model was used, financial losses tended to be underestimated. A substantial portion of the total costs was borne by other than the employing firms.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0925-7535",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}