1st Edition
Increasing Productivity and Profit through Health and Safety The Financial Returns from a Safe Working Environment
208 Pages
38 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
208 Pages
by
CRC Press
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In all workplaces the health and safety of employees is closely linked with the company's profitability. Human resource strategies for improving the health and safety of people in the workplace do not necessarily cost money - in fact they usually save money. A practical book based on the authors' combined consultancy experience, Increasing Productivity and Profit Through Health and Safety shows... Read more
INTRODUCTION
ECONOMICS FOR THE NON-ECONOMIST
INFORMATION SOURCES
THE PRODUCTIVITY ASSESSMENT TOOL
CASE STUDIES
Industrial Cleaning: Safer at a Lower Cost
Permanent or Precarious Employment? The Hospitality Industry
Why Lift Patients When There's a Better Way? Reducing Back Injuries in the Health Industry
Large-scale Experiments: Valuable but not Easy to Carry Out
Manual Handling
Personal Protectrive Clothing and Equipment
Prevention and Rehabilitation
NEW SUPERVISORY SYSTEMS
ETHICS
INSTALLING AND RUNNING THE PRODUCTIVITY ASSESSMENT TOOL
GLOSSARY
INDEX
ECONOMICS FOR THE NON-ECONOMIST
INFORMATION SOURCES
THE PRODUCTIVITY ASSESSMENT TOOL
CASE STUDIES
Industrial Cleaning: Safer at a Lower Cost
Permanent or Precarious Employment? The Hospitality Industry
Why Lift Patients When There's a Better Way? Reducing Back Injuries in the Health Industry
Large-scale Experiments: Valuable but not Easy to Carry Out
Manual Handling
Personal Protectrive Clothing and Equipment
Prevention and Rehabilitation
NEW SUPERVISORY SYSTEMS
ETHICS
INSTALLING AND RUNNING THE PRODUCTIVITY ASSESSMENT TOOL
GLOSSARY
INDEX
Biography
Oxenburgh\, Maurice; Marlow\, Penelope S.P.; Oxenburgh\, Andrew
"The core is well focused, the case studies are convincing, the model works and I, for one, will be using my interactive version of productAbility Basic at the earliest opportunity."
- Health & Safety, HSM, April 2005
"The book should assist any manager who wishes to win over a skeptical CEO or board that expenditure on a workplace improvement will not only reduce injury and ill health but will lead to better productivity."
- Safeguard Magazine, March/April 2005
"A series of case studies is … provided from a range of industry sectors and countries. … For each case study, a summary of the cost-benefit analysis is provided, showing how the payback periods were justified. … [The book] offers useful materials for students of ergonomics … ."
- The Journal of Occupational Health & Safety, Australia and New Zealand, Vol. 20, No. 6, Dec. 2004
