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The Economics and Cost-Justification of Ergonomics

The language of business is dollars, and in today’s business climate successful ergonomists know that cost-justification of ergonomic interventions/programs is essential. Performing a cost benefit analysis is an important skill for all health and safety professionals. The purpose of this project is to demonstrate how ergonomics affects the business drivers of quality and productivity and how a cost-benefit analysis can be used to justify ergonomic interventions in the workplace.

The Economics and Cost-Justification of Ergonomics

Ergonomics

Ergonomics Case Study: The Dow Chemical Company’s Use of the “Six Sigma” Methodology

Dow believes that using “Six Sigma” for EH&S projects such as these enables employers to develop program improvements based on measurement and analysis, rather than speculation, resulting in a more cost-efficient and sustainable fix that will yield benefits indefinitely. Rather than undertaking costly trial and error attempts at solutions, the Company was able to identify the root causes of ergonomic injuries with confidence and make improvements to the ergonomics program in a systematic and sustainable way.

Ergonomics Case Study: The Dow Chemical Company’s Use of the “Six Sigma” Methodology

The Definition, Domains, and Applications of Ergonomics

Whether you’re an ergonomics pro or you’re new to the field, it’s helpful every once in a while to take a broad view of what ergonomics is and how its fundamental principles can be applied. At the very least, you’ll be able to explain what ergonomics is in a social setting. At the very best, you’ll start to see how deeply the field of ergonomics impacts your world at work, at home and the places in between.

The Definition, Domains, and Applications of Ergonomics

Workplace Athlete Health

Workplace Wellness: Stretch It Out At Your Desk

Whether it is a long business trip in the car, your body parked on an airplane for hours, or a meeting lasting ALL DAY, our poor bodies stay seated, hunched and cramped up for way too long on any given work day. The side effects of our working positions are often low back pain from tight hip flexors, neck and shoulder pain that can easily create chronic headaches and other pain throughout the body, as well as overall decreased energy in our systems.

Workplace Wellness: Stretch It Out At Your Desk

Free Injury Prevention Handout — Wrist Injury Prevention

Each day we use the muscles and tendons in the wrist and hand to perform various upper extremity tasks. The physical stress and strain to these muscles and tendons can produce microscopic wear and fatigue to these tendons and muscles. As long as the amount of fatigue is lower than the body’s ability to recover, the soft tissues in the wrist will remain healthy. But too much strain and fatigue, coupled with too little repair, can lead to an inflammation. Carpal tunnel syndrome is a nerve compression disorder caused by inflammation of the soft tissues that past through the carpal tunnel in the wrist.

Free Injury Prevention Handout — Wrist Injury Prevention

Safety Leadership

Question No. Three to Develop Your Safety Excellence Strategy

What’s your rationale? Why is it important now to take a more strategic look at how to transform safety performance and culture? Don’t you have other things to do, of greater importance than improving safety? A tongue-in-cheek question of course, but the rationale needs to be more focused than “Because it is the right thing to do,” or, as one oil and gas client stated, “It is our right to operate,” and a service-based client said, “It provides a competitive advantage.”

Question No. Three to Develop Your Safety Excellence Strategy