1st Edition

Increasing Productivity and Profit through Health and Safety The Financial Returns from a Safe Working Environment

208 Pages
by CRC Press

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

Introduction. Economics for the Non-economist. Information Sources. The Productivity Assessment Tool. Case Studies: Improving Health and Productivity Industrial Cleaning; Safer at a Lower Cost. Permanent or Precarious Employment? The Hospitality Industry. The Health Industry. Large Scale Experiments; Valuable but Not Easy to Carry Out. Manual Handling. Personal Protective Equipment. Prevention and Rehabilitation. New Supervisory Systems. Ethics. Running the Computer Programme. Glossary and Index. CD

Biography

Oxenburgh\, Maurice; Marlow\, Penelope S.P.; Oxenburgh\, Andrew