How to know and understand the value of human life and health from the perspective of safety economics

1, from an economic point of view, safety can reduce useless losses and indirectly increase value for society. Safety economics studies and solves safety economic problems, so it is an economics at first, but not an economics in general. Safety economics regards safety engineering activities as a specific application field, which determines that safety economics is the product of combining with natural science.

2. It is a science that studies the relationship between human security activities and economic activities in economic development. Based on the theory of economic science, it takes the safety field as its orientation and provides theoretical guidance and practical basis for safety economic activities. Therefore, safety economics can be said to be a comprehensive science where economics and safety science intersect.

First, the impact of the accident:

1, the impact of accidents on social economy and enterprise production is an important basic work for analyzing safety benefits and guiding safety quantitative decision. Accident loss refers to life and health loss, material or property loss, time loss and environmental damage caused by unexpected events. The direct economic loss including the accident refers to the loss directly related to the accident at that time and can be directly valued in money.

2. The indirect economic loss of an accident refers to the loss that is indirectly related to a major accident and can be directly valued in money. The direct non-economic loss of an accident refers to the loss that is directly related to the accident at that time and cannot be directly priced in money. For example, the damage caused by accidents to people's life and health and the environment has no direct value (only indirect pricing);

3. The indirect non-economic loss of an accident refers to the loss that is indirectly related to a major accident and cannot be directly priced in currency. Such as the impact of accidents on work efficiency, loss of goodwill and political stability.

Second, the classification of accident losses

According to the relationship between losses and major accidents. Divided into direct losses and indirect losses. Heinrich, an American safety expert, and China's related standard "Classification Standard for Casualty Accidents of Enterprise Employees" (GB 644 1-86) all accepted this classification method. But the classification caliber is different.