What Are the Monthly Running Costs of an Occupational Health and Safety Unit?
An occupational health and safety unit’s cost table is almost entirely staff: safety specialists, workplace physicians and other health personnel. Office and vehicle look small beside them. The silent cost sits in traffic: the hours a specialist spends between workplaces. 🦺
Short answer: monthly running costs sit between ₺70K and ₺180K.
First the lines, then the character of costs, then the mistakes and finally the break-even sum.
The parts of the monthly bill
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- The lines that don’t move
- Variable costs
- Invisible cost: specialists’ travel hours
They gather in three groups.
The lines that don’t move
Office rent ₺12-30K, specialists, physicians and administrative staff ₺45-125K, software, accounting and insurance ₺5-12K. Staff is the decisive line here.
Variable costs
Fuel and vehicle costs, environment measurement consumables, training materials and stationery cost ₺5-15K. They grow with visit numbers.
Invisible cost: specialists’ travel hours
Time spent between workplaces across the city can’t be billed. With a scattered portfolio that loss takes a large share of specialist hours. Area clustering shrinks this line.
Which line moves and which stays?
Almost entirely fixed.
Pressure from the fixed load
Specialist and physician wages are paid regardless of contract numbers. The load lightens only as contracts per specialist rise.
Three places money quietly melts
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- 1. Spreading the portfolio across the city
- 2. Not planning the visit calendar
- 3. Not tracking contract renewals
All three start in portfolio planning.
1. Spreading the portfolio across the city
Distant workplaces make specialists spend the day travelling.
2. Not planning the visit calendar
Unplanned visits tire the specialist and make tracking the required intervals harder.
3. Not tracking contract renewals
Every unrenewed contract removes that income line and creates empty specialist hours.
Where does the line start?
Monthly costs divided by margin.
A worked example
A unit with ₺125K monthly costs and a 50% gross margin covers its costs at around ₺250K monthly revenue. When training and measurement lift margin to 56%, this line falls to ₺223K. Sixty contracted workplaces paying an average of ₺4,000 a month sit above this line. Industrial zones, holding many workplaces in one area, are the most productive regions for raising daily visits. Tying renewal dates to a calendar and presenting an annual activity summary before renewal reduces portfolio loss. The margin mechanics are in the occupational health and safety unit profit margin article, the monthly net band in the occupational health and safety unit earnings article. 🧭
Who is this cost level for?
For founders who know the regulations and are meticulous about teams and calendars.
Where do the figures come from?
The cost bands were drawn by reading working medical businesses’ monthly bills, current rent, energy and fuel prices and independent reports side by side. Location and team size move you within the band. Details on our methodology page. 📐
📝 From the Field
One unit’s contracts were scattered across the city and specialists could reach only two workplaces a day. The owner mapped the portfolio, didn’t renew distant low-fee contracts and focused on workplaces in one industrial zone, tying the visit calendar to area days. Daily visits per specialist rose and the same staff cost covered more contracts. Here, costs hide in the hours a specialist spends in traffic. 🦺
📖 Quick Glossary
Running costs: the amount paid every month apart from goods sold. Break-even point: the monthly revenue at which income fully covers costs. Portfolio: all contracted workplaces. Area clustering: gathering contracts within the same area.
⚡ In Short
Monthly costs ₺70-180K. 📊 Almost entirely staff. Three lines inflate costs: spreading the portfolio, not planning the visit calendar, not tracking renewals. Example break-even: ₺125K costs at a 50% margin need about ₺250K revenue.
🎯 Next Step
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Training and environment measurement services bring income beyond contracts.
Someone who doesn’t cluster the portfolio pays for the specialist’s travel hours. For a clinic-service branch, physiotherapy centre running costs; for a supply branch, hospital textiles running costs are good alternatives. To weigh branches by cost, see our sector page.
Specialist and physician wages; almost the whole cost table is staff.
Clustering contracts by area and tying visits to area days works best.
Tying renewal dates to a calendar and presenting an annual activity summary before renewal is effective.
It adds materials and room costs, but its net contribution is positive since it brings income beyond contracts.
Source: Skilled Nursing News