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Increasing Productivity and Profit through Health and Safety Maurice Oxenburgh

Increasing Productivity and Profit through Health and Safety By Maurice Oxenburgh

Increasing Productivity and Profit through Health and Safety by Maurice Oxenburgh


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Summary

This book is designed around human resource strategies and illustrated through case studies, which explain the effectiveness of ergonomics on productivity and profit, both for the employees (a safer and more congenial working environment) and the enterprises (better return on investment).

Increasing Productivity and Profit through Health and Safety Summary

Increasing Productivity and Profit through Health and Safety: The Financial Returns from a Safe Working Environment by Maurice Oxenburgh

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 readers how they can use ergonomics to make money for their organizations. Richly illustrated with a range of case studies drawn from heavy industry, retail sales, hospitals, hotels, and call centers, the book outlines universal concepts that can be used in any workplace. Included with the book is a CD-ROM that contains a simple but sophisticated working cost-benefit analysis model. This model enables readers to input their own data, which will help them make the case for implementing workplace health, safety, and ergonomics programs. For the non-expert there is a chapter that explains economics concepts and models using 'non-economics' language.

Human resource personnel, physicians, safety and risk management specialists, trainers, and ergonomists as well as business managers and engineers will find this book to be a powerful support tool for developing and implementing workplace improvements.

Increasing Productivity and Profit through Health and Safety Reviews

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

About Maurice Oxenburgh

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

Table of Contents

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

Additional information

CIN0415243319VG
9780415243315
0415243319
Increasing Productivity and Profit through Health and Safety: The Financial Returns from a Safe Working Environment by Maurice Oxenburgh
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
20040123
208
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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