Principals achieving health and safety outcomes: Manukau City Council’s procurement arrangements

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Table 3: Costs per case, by severity, injury and type of cost, 2004-05 ($)
	Production disturbance	Human capital	Health and rehabilitation	Legal and administrative costs	Transfer costs	Other costs^[17]	TOTAL FINANCIAL COSTS	SUFFERING^[18]	GRAND TOTAL
<7 days	245	-	1,082	45	37	-	1,409	96	1,505
Full return	12,930	-	7,511	491	746	-	21,678	6,580	28,258
Staged return	21,757	255,960	12,931	791	19,418	31,750	342,608	1,372,439	1,715,048
Partial return	27,852	255,960	13,855	796	19,758	31,750	349,971	1,373,408	1,723,380
Permanent	70,177	711,001	412,270	42,334	50,693	49,610	1,336,085	1,738,420	3,074,505
Fatal	8,068	711,001	5,628	51,157	28,525	-	804,379	3,352,369	4,156,748
Other	52,729	255,960	31,325	1,636	21,810	31,750	395,211	1,376,678	1,771,889
Average	1,775	7,765	1,913	116	669	931	13,170	41,882	55,051

Source: Pezzullo L, Crook A, Access Economics, 2006, The economic and social costs of occupational disease and injury in New Zealand, NOHSAC Technical Report 4, Wellington.

^[17] For example, carers, equipment, modifications.

^[18] The authors estimated the average cost of suffering and premature death based on literature on willingness to pay, which provided an estimate of the value of a life year in New Zealand of $184, 216. This valuation was applied to all severity categories together with Australian disability weightings.

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