The costs of industrial accidents for the organization: Developing methods and tools for evaluation and cost-benefit analysis of investment in safety

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 434-438

  Gavious, Arieh ^a   Mizrahi, Shlomo ^a   Shani, Yael ^a   Minchuk, Yizhaq ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Accident; Bottleneck; Cost; Economic model; Process industry; Theory of constraints

Indexed keywords

BOTTLENECK; DIRECT COSTS; ECONOMIC MODEL; INDIRECT COSTS; INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT; PROCESS INDUSTRY; REAL COSTS; THEORY OF CONSTRAINT; THEORY OF CONSTRAINTS;

ACCIDENTS; COST ACCOUNTING; COSTS; DISASTERS; ECONOMICS; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 67349107476     PISSN: 09504230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlp.2009.02.008     Document Type: Article

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