Do Workplace Wellness Programs Work?

The cost effectiveness of 500 life-saving interventions, 587 to be exact, with some costing more than 10 billion dollars per year of life saved. The average intervention costs 42,000 dollars which is how much it costs to save a year of someone's life putting flashing lights at railroad crossings. But if you really cared about saving drivers, you could save nearly 100 times more lives investing the same money in media campaigns to encourage people to wear their seat belts.