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What workplace violence actually costs your organization
And how that number gets the right prevention budget approved.
How can you justify a prevention investment when the return has yet to be accurately calculated?
Few organizations ever assemble a complete figure for what workplace violence costs them, because the pieces sit in different departments and adding them up is rarely anyone’s assignment. Without that total, prevention proposals tend to get scaled back.
Your Real Cost is Spread Across Multiple Departments
Each department holds a real figure, and each figure is only a fraction. The pieces almost never get added together, which leaves the total invisible to everyone, including you.
ASSET PROTECTION
Incidents, investigation hours, shrink
HUMAN RESOURCES
The share of turnover driven by an unsafe environment, and what replacing those people costs
OPERATIONS
Absorbed manager hours, lost productivity, coverage gaps
RISK
Claims, and premium pressure through the experience modification rate
LEGAL
Settlements and defense costs
A prevention budget built on a partial figure tends to get sized by precedent rather than by exposure. The data that would size it accurately exists across the organization, in systems that report to other functions. Assembling it is largely a matter of knowing what to ask for, and who to ask.
Compile the real number you can put in a budget request
The calculator takes what each department already tracks and produces the two figures a budget request needs: your annual cost, and the reduction an investment would have to achieve to pay for itself.
Your costs, not benchmarks
The annual total is calculated from your actual data, so it reflects your organization rather than an industry average.
Every assumption is sourced
Each figure the model relies on cites where it came from, whether that is BLS, OSHA or the National Safety Council, so a reviewer can trace any line back.
Conservative by default
Starting values sit at or below the low end of published ranges, and every one of them is adjustable, so a skeptical reviewer can test the model rather than dismiss it.
You set the effectiveness
How much prevention reduces incidents is a figure you choose, not one we assert. Your break-even is shown against it.
How the Calculator Works
Start with the data you have
Headcount, sector, state and proposed training spend.
Add three departments’ figures
Short conversations with HR, Risk and Finance replace the defaults with your own data.
Set the
assumptions
Every default is adjustable, so the model reflects what you actually believe.
Print the
result
A sourced figure with the arithmetic visible beside it.
Who to ask and what to ask for
Each of these groups holds a piece of the information needed for a total amount.
Human Resources
Frontline turnover and replacement cost. The model applies only the share attributable to safety, and you set that share.
Risk / Insurance
Comp claims tied to violent incidents, and whether the experience mod has moved. If no one holds this internally, your broker can pull both.
Finance
Average fully loaded salary for the roles in scope. Site revenue is optional.
Sources and limits
Expected incidents come from sector-specific violence-injury rates in the BLS injury survey. Compliance status is derived from your state and sector, including California’s SB 553 and New York’s Retail Worker Safety Act.
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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (SOII / CFOI)
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OSHA, Business Case for Safety & Health
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National Safety Council, Injury Facts
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Liberty Mutual Workplace Safety Index
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American Hospital Association
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NSI Nursing Solutions · NCCI experience rating
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Cal/OSHA Labor Code §6401.9
Your privacy
There is no account, no login and no connection back to us, so nothing you enter is transmitted or saved anywhere. Download a copy and it works with no internet connection at all. Given the sort of figures it asks for, that mattered more to us than being able to see who was using it.
This modeler is a decision-support estimate, not an actuarial certification or legal advice. Validate against your own incident, HR and insurance data before presenting it as authoritative.