The Cost of Injury The Costs of Injury From Winter 1995 Volume II, Number 1 Injury problems are often described with rates or numbers of people killed and injured. While these measures are important, injury problems can be expressed in other ways. Ted Miller, director of the CSN Economics and Insurance Resource Center, speaks to this issue.
Cost is often a more understandable measure of the size of an injury problem than incidence.
That's statistically significant. You're going to throw me out of your office. Now you can understand why you should be funding that program. It's a way to sell safety. Enterprising injury professionals use cost estimates from the CSN Economics and Insurance Resource Center in ways that yield concrete results.