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What is workplace injury costing you?
Musculoskeletal (MSK) injury — back, neck, shoulder and upper-limb issues — is the most common category of work-related ill health in Europe. Use your own workforce numbers below to estimate what it costs your organisation each year.
Your workforce
Used to estimate daily wage cost of absence.
MSK (back, neck, shoulder, upper-limb) issues are the most common category of work-related ill health (EU-OSHA). Set to your own experience.
Hidden costs — cover, recruitment, admin, lost productivity. The HSE accident-iceberg model puts these at 1×–3× direct cost. Default 2× (conservative).
Estimated annual cost
Estimated MSK-related cost to your organisation per year
€27,273
This is an order-of-magnitude estimate from your own inputs — not a quote. A single ergonomic assessment or a manual handling training programme typically costs a fraction of the figure above.
Get an ergonomic assessment quoteHow the estimate is calculated
The calculator multiplies your own inputs — no figures are invented. The calculation is:
- Daily wage cost = average annual salary ÷ 220 working days (a standard Irish working-year estimate after leave and public holidays).
- Affected employees = workforce × the percentage you set.
- Direct cost = affected employees × absence days × daily wage cost.
- Indirect (hidden) cost= direct cost × the ratio you set. The HSE “accident iceberg” model puts hidden costs — cover, recruitment, admin, lost productivity — at roughly 1× to 3× the direct cost. We default to a conservative 2×.
The result is an order-of-magnitude estimate to support a business case — not a precise figure and not a quote. The point it usually makes: the cost of prevention (an ergonomic assessment or a manual handling programme) is a small fraction of the cost of the injuries it prevents.
Context on MSK prevalence: the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) reports musculoskeletal disorders as the most common work-related health problem in the EU.
Turn the number into a plan
A targeted ergonomic assessment or manual handling programme is the most direct way to bring that figure down. Tell us about your workforce and we'll come back within 4 working hours.