• Filing a document costs 25-30 cents per sheet
• 3-5 % of an organization's documents are lost or misfiled
• The cost to recreate a misfiled document is $120 - $250
• 7.4% of an executive's time is spent looking for lost or misfiled documents
• Counting lost and misfiled documents, the average cost is $20/document!

6 supervisors at each location hold monthly safety meetings
and generate a report from each meeting (6 x 5 x 12 x $20)

The EHS staff complete 4 audits each year at each location (4 x 5 x $20)

Site safety committees on each of the three shifts
complete monthly self-inspections at each location (5 x 3 x 12 x $20)

This company has 50 recordable injuries each year (50 x $20)

Each site maintains an OSHA 200 log (5 x $20)

Ten written Corporate EHS programs are revised each year (10 x $20)

Five written site EHS programs are revised at each site each year (5 x 5 x $20)

Total annual paperwork cost for this company

• How many safety-meeting reports are filed each year?
• How many audits or self-inspections do you completed each year?
• How many EHS written programs are reviewed and updated each year?
• How many "First Report of Accident" forms does your company complete each year?
• How many "Occupational Injury and Illness" logs does your company complete each year?