Proving the Value of Ergonomic Programs

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• Personal Author:
  Torma-Krajewski, Janet
• Description:
  Upper management and business owners often present the greatest barrier to implementing ergonomic or other environmental and safety-related initiatives. In most cases, a clear business case must be made and presented, compelling management to act. This roundtable presentation will break down the areas to address into a few basic components, and will offer user-friendly tools and methods to accomplish this task. Three areas associated with the "cost of doing nothing" will be identified: workplace injuries resulting in direct costs to an employer, the indirect costs related to such an injury, and costs related to productivity and efficiency issues. Another segment of the roundtable will tie these components together, demonstrating a simple, yet powerful method to cost justify ergonomic intervention. Two additional speakers will discuss alternative ergonomic cost justification techniques in the mining industry and selling internal programs to management at Motorola. Attendees should leave armed with a solid, yet simplified approach to selling ideas to management, rather than just taking the standard regulatory compliance stance. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Ergonomics Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Workplace
• Keywords:
  Injuries Injury-prevention Safety-measures Safety-practices Safety-programs Safety-research Work-environment Workers
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Publisher:
  American Industrial Hygiene Association
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Abstract or Summary
• Place as Subject:
  California ; Colorado ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 8 ; OSHA Region 9 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRL - Pittsburgh Research Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20027339
• Citation:
  American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exposition, May 21-26, 2005, Anaheim, California. Fairfax, VA: American Industrial Hygiene Association, 2005 May; :1
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2005
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exposition, May 21-26, 2005, Anaheim, California
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:62a735ce29d1be3fd245507c5a07eae1f0ac8de461eb21b5961236ea17b2ebbda9f8d1f97fded59d6976787eca53cf58144d17b027ee96fd909693a736dbe235
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/221019/cdc_221019_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 192.52 KB ]