Economic assessment of the damage caused by sudden death in the workplace in the leading sectors of the region’s economy

Introduction. Research on the health status of workers in various sectors of the economy of the Republic of Bashkortostan (RB) shows an increase in premature mortality of people of working age in the workplace from general diseases. A few works on this topic are devoted to determining the damage that this causes to the economy in territorial and sectoral terms. A new aspect of the study is the economic assessment of losses from deaths that are sudden in nature, occur in the workplace, and are classified in the investigation as an accident not related to production.

The aim of the study is to perform an economic assessment of the damage caused by sudden death in the workplace due to industrial accidents with a fatal outcome from general diseases in organizations of the leading sectors of the economy of the RB.

Materials and methods. The economic assessment of the damage caused by sudden death in the workplace due to total diseases among employees in the leading sectors of the economy of the RB is based on the following data: the average annual number of employees in the economy by type of economic activity (TEA); gross regional product in basic prices; the average monthly nominal accrued wages of employees of foreign trade organizations; the number of fatalities in the workplace due to total diseases; the number of working years lost due to the occurrence of an employee’s premature death. Damage in the context of the leading sectors of the region’s economy, as well as the total amount of damage for 2014-2018 were calculated in a tabular way. The results were processed using the MS Excel package.

Results. The greatest damage from industrial accidents with fatal results from total diseases was observed in the manufacturing industry. For 2017-2018, the amount of damage in terms of under-produced gross regional product in the leading sectors of the economy amounted to 102.37 million rubles. The total amount of economic damage for 2014-2018, calculated on the basis of the average monthly nominal accrued wages, for all foreign trade activities amounted to 231.574 million rubles. According to this indicator, the amount of damage from industrial accidents with a fatal outcome from total diseases increased from 35.233 million rubles (2014) to 63.793 million rubles (2018), i.e. by 1.8 times.

Conclusions. To reduce the amount of economic damage and prevent labor losses, measures to prevent sudden deaths from total diseases in the workplace, especially in enterprises with a high value of this indicator, have the greatest effect. The data obtained can be used in planning investments in prevention programs to prevent and reduce the risk of sudden death from general diseases in the workplace.

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