Proposing a structural equation model for systematic management on incident costs

Analyzing the events based on statistics and published information, numerous accidents of various types have occurred around the world with destructive and undesirable effects on the country's capital, and in some cases the effects have exceeded the country's borders and reached beyond the borders of the country. the purpose of the study is to manage the direct and indirect costs of accidents and improve the mechanism of accident management based on the critical costs of accidents across the country. this study is considered applied study in terms of purpose and is considered descriptive-survey in terms of methodology. the statistical population of the research includes experts in oil, gas, petrochemical, cement, steel, power plant, road construction and construction industries as well as university professors related to occupational health, industrial safety, hse along with active professors in crisis and emergency management from which 384 people were randomly selected using the morgan table. this research was conducted in the period of 1997 and 1998 determining the costs of work-related accidents. the research has been carried out in various upstream, oil, gas and petrochemical industries, steel and cement industries and other industrial and urban areas. the research instrument includes a researcher-made questionnaire. data analysis was performed using smartpls structural equation software. all emergency actions (accident confrontation/initial accident costs), accident investigation costs, damage costs, work-related accident damages (personnel replacement costs), costs related to production of products/services, cost of marketing activities (maintenance), reputation and work credit and resumption of work activities have the ability to measure occupational accidents.