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The High Cost of Low-Quality PPE Beyond the physical and emotional pain caused by injuries, safety managers must calculate the total costs of a workplace injury. There are numerous indirect costs of injuries that can have ten times the economic impact of the direct costs.

TIME-RELATED COSTS • Overtime costs necessitated by the injury • Additional administrative time for supervisors, safety personnel and clerical workers • Time spent investigating and reporting the accident • Time spent addressing production problems and training replacement workers PRODUCTIVITY COSTS • Production output lost by the worker,

MATERIAL/EQUIPMENT DAMAGES • The cost of replacing damaged equipment • Rental equipment costs, if damaged equipment needs repairs

• Material or product damage leads to lost potential sales

MORALE/REPUTATION • Intangible, unquantifiable costs that must be taken into account • Poor worker morale leads to decreased production and increased turnover rates • Damage to your reputation with customers can lead to business losses • Loss of public goodwill from bad publicity

those assisting and onlookers • Reduced productivity from the injured worker upon return • Reduced productivity by the replacement for the injured worker

Lower Your TRIR and Grow Your Business All things being equal, companies with great safety records position themselves to win more bids and gain more profits. The industry standard for measuring the

Actual Contractor-Wide Rolling TRIR (September 2011 – August 2012)

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effectiveness of a company’s safety measures is the Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR). Evaluating your current TRIR can pinpoint problem areas, which HexArmor can address with solutions targeted to specific applications and hazards. Our safety experts collaborate directly with construction company safety managers to lower their TRIR and maximize their potential profits.

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