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OSHA's "$afety Pays" program can help employers assess the impact of occupational injuries and illnesses on their profitability. This program uses a company's profit margin, the average costs of an injury or illness, and an indirect cost multiplier to project the amount of sales a company would need to cover those costs. The program is intended as a tool to raise awareness of how occupational injuries and illnesses can impact a company's profitability, not to provide a detailed analysis of a particular company's occupational injury and illness costs.

The"$afety Pays" programwill:

• Allow users to pick an injury type from a drop-down list or to enter their workers' compensation costs
• Prompt users for information to do the analysis, including their profit margin and number of injuries
• Generate a report of the costs and the sales needed to cover those costs

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For additional information on how "$afety Pays" works, see Background of the Cost Estimates

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If you have safety or health problems in your workplace, please contact your local OSHA Area Office or the OSHA On-site OSHA On-site Consultation Program in your state.