Tool 2
Cost/Benefit
Check
Ewa Lidén
Kassel
Presentation 2009
Project No. 030300-2
COMFOR educative packages
Tool 7:
Sitting-Check
Tool 1:
Health
&
Performance
Tool 2:
Cost/Benefit
Tool 6:
Ergo-Check
Tool 5:
Skills
(operator)
Ewa Lidén
Kassel
Tool 3:
WORX for SMes
Tool 4:
Skills
(contractor)
Presentation 2009
Project No. 030300-2
Tool 2: Cost/Benefit Check
The tool helps you to monitor and estimate
• hidden costs related to ill health
• benefits from ill health prevention
This is necessary to
• decide and
• invest in
appropriate preventive measures.
Ewa Lidén
Kassel
Presentation 2009
Project No. 030300-2
SME voices about c/b-check
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the illness costs become clear
good to show and discuss with the employees
useful to raise awareness of these costs
enables to quantify what could be saved
thanks to appropriate measures/improvements
offers easy calculations for price negotiations
this information is essential for determining
financial result of my enterprise
– Money talks! Real Euros are interesting!
Ewa Lidén
Kassel
Presentation 2009
Project No. 030300-2
Structure of tool
The tool consists of three parts:
1. Input data from the company
2. Illness costs
3. Scope for investments
Ewa Lidén
Kassel
Presentation 2009
Project No. 030300-2
Limitations
The effort was to keep tool
• simple
• general
therefore …
Ewa Lidén
Kassel
Presentation 2009
Project No. 030300-2
… therefore
• have items of limited relevance been left out
• is net production value used
• are logistic losses beyond the reduced
performance of one machine not considered
 cost estimates are rather too low than too large
Ewa Lidén
Kassel
Presentation 2009
Project No. 030300-2
Four sickness cases
1. Operator working though feeling ill
 reduced performance
2. Operator on sick leave, no replacement
 machine stand still
3. Operator on sick leave, with replacement
 extra costs and reduced performance
4. Operator have to quit forestry
 new recruitment
Ewa Lidén
Kassel
Presentation 2009
Project No. 030300-2
Further consequences
Illness during very busy periods may result in
• loss of contracts
• drastically reduced profits
Ewa Lidén
Kassel
Presentation 2009
Project No. 030300-2
Instructions
1. Save a working copy of tool
2. Replace default values with company
data in blue fields
3. Additional information in cells with 
4. Automatically calculated costs appear in
red fields
Ewa Lidén
Kassel
Presentation 2009
Project No. 030300-2
COMPANY DATA
1. Salary costs
• Harvester
• Forwarder
2. Output per hour (m3 or ton)
3. Price per m3 or ton
4. Variable costs
• Harvester
• Forwarder
5. Recruitment costs
Ewa Lidén
Kassel
Presentation 2009
Project No. 030300-2
Default values
For guidance:
Illustrative values from Finnish forestry
 Much better to use
data from contractors own company!
Where find this input data?
Ewa Lidén
Kassel
Presentation 2009
Project No. 030300-2
Data to enter
For harvester and forwarder operators:
1. Days with reduced performance
• % of performance reduction
2. Days without production
3. Days with replacement
• salary for replacement
• % of performance reduction
4. % of recruitment costs caused by illness
… for cases occurred during last year!
Ewa Lidén
Kassel
Presentation 2009
Project No. 030300-2
COMPANY ILLNESS COSTS
Sources of input data:
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Results from Tool 1: Health & Performance Check
Company’s own files on sick leave
Your advanced estimations
…
Ewa Lidén
Kassel
Presentation 2009
Project No. 030300-2
TOTAL COSTS
A summary of the costs last year in the
4 cases:
€ 12.746
Total illness cost
Which costs may be reduced?
Ewa Lidén
Kassel
Presentation 2009
Project No. 030300-2
PREVENTABLE COSTS
1. Change figures in blue fields
The corresponding benefits appear
automatically in the red fields
Ewa Lidén
Kassel
Presentation 2009
Project No. 030300-2
BENEFIT CHECK
Specification of ’benefits’
 Scope for annual investments in
preventive measures
What measures are promising?
Ewa Lidén
Kassel
Presentation 2009
Project No. 030300-2
Identification of measures
1. Question 10 in
Tool 1: Health & Performance Check
2. Discussions with operators
3. Guidance from OSH-services
4. Own experiences
Ewa Lidén
Kassel
Presentation 2009
Project No. 030300-2
Decisions table
After discussion, specify for each measure:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Costs
Goal
Indicators
Responsible person
5.
6.
7.
8.
Involved persons
Starting date
Finishing date
Follow up and close
NOTE: Total available scope is displayed!
Ewa Lidén
Kassel
Presentation 2009
Project No. 030300-2
Tool 2: Cost/Benefit – Check
Field of application Estimating scope for
ergonomic investments
Type of tool
Calculation tool,
basis for decisions
Documents
Excel file
Frequency
(recommended)
Yearly, or when following up
investments
Ewa Lidén
Kassel
Presentation 2009
Project No. 030300-2