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Cold-Chain & OT Downtime Loss Calculator

When refrigeration or OT goes down, the bill is more than spoiled stock: lost trading, incident recovery, emergency logistics and regulatory exposure all stack up. This calculator turns your own figures into an itemised, fully transparent estimate — every line shows its formula — with a visual breakdown and a sensitivity view so you can see which assumption moves the number most. It invents no benchmarks; the only built-in facts are general cold-chain safe-temperature thresholds for context.

Your figures
Stores / plants impacted
Total refrigerated stock exposed
Fraction of that stock lost
Duration of the outage
Lost trading per site per hour
IR, rebuild, re-commissioning
Gensets, trucks, cold-storage hire (total)
Fines, disclosure, disposal (total)
Cold-chain thresholds (context)
Frozen food: hold -23 to -18 °C; danger above -12 °C.
Chilled / fresh food: hold 1 to 5 °C; danger above 8 °C.
Pharma / vaccine (2–8 C): hold 2 to 8 °C; danger above 8 °C.

General industry ranges for context only; they do not feed the calculation.

Estimated total loss
$382,600
Across 12 sites, 18 hours down — from your figures only.
Product spoilage (22%)
Lost trading / production (48%)
Recovery & remediation (19%)
Emergency logistics (7%)
Regulatory / fines / disclosure (4%)

Itemised breakdown

Product spoilage
$240,000 at risk × 35% spoiled
$84,000
Lost trading / production
$850/site/hr × 18 hr × 12 sites
$183,600
Recovery & remediation
$6,000/site × 12 sites
$72,000
Emergency logistics
user-entered total (gensets, trucks, cold-storage hire)
$28,000
Regulatory / fines / disclosure
user-entered total
$15,000
Total$382,600

Sensitivity (±25% per driver)

Which single assumption moves the total most. Longest bar = most leverage.

Affected sites$318,700 → $446,500
Hours down$336,700 → $428,500
Hourly revenue/site$336,700 → $428,500
Spoilage rate$361,600 → $403,600
Product value at risk$361,600 → $403,600

This is an estimate built only from the figures you entered. PlayCISO supplies no cost benchmarks here; the single built-in dataset is general cold-chain safe-temperature guidance shown for context. Replace every input with your own measured values before using the result in a decision.

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Cold-Chain & OT Downtime Loss Calculator — Free & Transparent · PlayCISO