Champions in Safety. Champions in Care.
What does it cost to pay for the real risks of HEMS, and who pays?
Commercial diving, offshore fishing, and logging are (in recent years) less lethal occupations than HEMS, and have average annual labor costs exceeding $200,000 per worker. Much of this cost is risk mitigation. For example, the annual cost for worker’s compensation alone for a Pacific Northwest logger is $60,000, in addition to wages paid to the logger.
Are you appropriately insured against line of duty death or disability?
For how much? And who pays for it?
Is your HEMS operator paying the real costs of employing you?
If not, why not?
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