Human Health
Introduction
Human health aspects are about the health and safety of others than working for the organization and caused by the presence of the organization (surroundings, traffic). See for the last the section “Subcategory: Occupational Health and Safety”, (8.8) under Labour.
Usually the involved people are living in the surrounding of the organization’s premises or affected by organization related traffic.
No data could be found on the preventative costs for this aspect. Therefore we assume that these are related to occupational health and safety issues and may even be included in the occupational health and safety (OHS) governance of the organization.
Therefore, the calculation of the ESCU’s is equal to OHS ESCU calculation, however with a new reducing governance dependent multiplication factor.
Category related Sustainable Development Goals
Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
Subcategories:
Human Health: health and safety issues affected by the near presence of the organization or traffic related to the organization. Human Health & Safety: health and safety issues affected by the near presence of the organization or traffic related to the organization.
User Health: health and safety issues by the use of the product.
Introduction
No specific data are available on the prevention costs HHS and prevention measures will heavily depend on the activities, materials, location, management and workers.
Impact category and characterization factor
The impact category is harm to outside people. The characterization factor is the product of the maximum preventative costs and a reducing multiplication factor determined by the measurement of organization’s quality of governance on HHS (see general methodology).
Targets
Zero harm caused by the near presence caused by the near presence or traffic related to the organization to people outside the organization.
Background calculations
The following formula is used: ESCU’s = HHSMax x RMF x M%, where:
HHSMax represents the maximum costs, which is preliminarily assumed equal to those for Occupational Health and Safety (OHS), which is a Utrecht University percentage (10%) of the wage sum.
RMF is the reducing multiplication factor, determined by entering yes or no compliance to a series of criteria.
M% is the issue mitigation percentage. For the remaining percentage, the background ESCU’s are calculated and added.
Foreground calculations
Organizations are challenged to determine their burdens to people outside their premises and demonstrate the related costs of prevention.
The calculation formula is equal to that for background ESCU calculations, however with the foreground prevention costs instead of HHSMAx.
Introduction
Use-health considers the safety of the product.
No specific data are available on the prevention costs HHS and prevention measures will heavily depend on the activities, materials, location, management, and workers.
Impact category and Indicator
The impact category is harm to people due to the use of the product.
Targets
Zero harm to users of the product.
For noise the Dutch standards are applied:
| Norm (dB(A)) | Period of the day (hour) | ||
| 07.00 – 19.00 | 19.00 – 23.00 | 23.00 – 07.00 | |
| LAr,LT at facade of noise-sensitive buildings | 50 | 45 | 40 |
| LAr,LT in noise- sensitive rooms with people | 35 | 30 | 25 |
| LAmax at facade of noise-sensitive buildings | 70 | 65 | 60 |
| LAmax in noise- sensitive rooms with people | 55 | 50 | 45 |
| LArLT = Long term average noise level at facades of noise-sensitive buildings | |||
| LAmax = Maximum noise level | |||
Background calculations
The use-sections of the Oiconomy Pricing Tool only request foreground data, which the organization theoretically should be able to demonstrate, because no suppliers are involved, because the use phase of a product is the responsibility of the end-producer and there are no unknown suppliers involved.
The following formula is used: ESCU’s = UHSMax x RMF x M%, where:
UHSMax represents the maximum costs, derived as follows:
Little data could be found on the expenditures on safety measures on prevention of public health. After a period, many safety measures become mandatory and standard. For collision safety-measures of light duty vehicles, some cost-indication could be found of yearly 0,4% of the invested capital for 24% collision reduction, which makes, faulty assuming linear extrapolation, 1,6% for avoiding of collisions. The mandated safety features are estimated at about 2% of the investment.
Cost–Benefit Analysis of Four Large Truck Advanced Safety Technologies
RMF is the reducing multiplication factor, determined by entering yes or no compliance to a series of criteria.
M% is the issue mitigation percentage. For the remaining percentage, the background ESCU’s are calculated and added.
Foreground calculations
Organizations are challenged to investigate all possible harm that product-uses could cause and determine the foreground costs to prevent any harm.
The ESCU calculation formula remains the same, however with the foreground prevention costs instead of UHSMax.