Module 2 example #8334

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Accident Costs
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In order for the cost to be paid, the organization must use the profit of the company. Accidents affect the organization's profitability because the costs of the accidents must be paid from increased revenue.
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A company's profit margin is calculated by
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Profit Margin=Total Profits/Total Sales
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The revenue required for funds to offset an injury are:
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Revenue Required=Total Cost of Incident/Profit Margin
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Indirect costs of an accident
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Are not paid through the insurance and therefore are unrecoverable. The relationship between direct cost and indirect cost is the indirect cost is greater than the direct cost for the company.
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Theories of Accidents
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Single Factor Theory Domino Theory Multiple Factor Theory Human Factor Theory Swiss Chees Theory
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Examples of a direct cost are:
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Physical therapy, Medical expenses, and Repair fees for damaged equipment
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Most direct costs of accidents are usually paid by the insurance company
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True
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______ cost is not paid by the insurance company and are unrecoverable
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Indirect
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When conducting a five whys accident analysis the investigator will dig deeper to uncover an accident______
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Causation
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The domino theories are based on 3 phases:
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Pre-contact, contact, post-contact
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The cost of an accident is paid from company ____
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Profits
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A root cause analysis is a detailed procedure used by safety professionals to look beyond the initial knee-jerk reaction to assign blame for an incident.
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True
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There are two types of failures that cause human errors:
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Active failures and Latent Failures
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The severity factors are delineated by characteristics ____
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Negligible, marginal, critical, and catastrophic.
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To evaluate the total cost of the accident you must combine both
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direct and indirect cost