Estimating of the Costs of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses from Agricultural Work in Thailand

摘要

Injured workers in agricultural sector in Thailand were absented in workers' compensation system as they have long been excluded from labor department's database. Due to Lack of neither record of injured workers nor cost of injuries and illnesses in Agricultural works, therefore no interest to decision makers in the governmental authority to do anything to address this issue. This study propose an alternative method to analyze the costs of occupational injuries and illnesses by estimating monetary values of lost productivity allocation based on injury or illness related production function and the output of agricultural commodities.