Increasing Productivity and Profit through Health and Safety The Financial Returns from a Safe Working Environment 2nd Edition by Maurice Oxenburgh, Penelope SP Marlow, Andrew Oxenburgh ISBN 1420025120 9781420025125

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ISBN 10: 1420025120 
ISBN 13: 9781420025125
Author: Maurice Oxenburgh, Penelope SP Marlow, Andrew Oxenburgh

Increasing Productivity and Profit through Health and Safety The Financial Returns from a Safe Working Environment 2nd Table of contents:

1 Introduction
1.1 More Ergonomics!
1.2 The Objective of this Book
1.3 Cost-Benefit Analysis Models for Occupational Health and Safety
1.4 Productivity Assessment Tool
1.5 References
2 Economics for the Non-Economist
2.1 What this Chapter is About
2.2 Why Economics?
2.3 Predicting the Future
2.4 What are Economic Models?
2.5 The Assumptions and Limitations of Economic Models
2.6 How to Use Economic Analysis as a Decision-Making Tool
2.7 Developing Your Proposal
2.8 References
3 Information Sources
3.1 What this Chapter is About
3.2 Defining the Work Area
3.3 What Questions Should Be Asked?
3.4 What Accuracy is Needed?
3.5 Easy-to-Collect Data
3.6 Performance Data
3.7 Quality Data
3.8 Spoken Information
3.9 Questionnaires and Checklists
3.10 Comparison with Other Companies
3.11 Productivity in the Service Industry
3.12 Individual Variation
3.13 Was the Intervention a Success?
3.14 References
4 The Productivity Assessment Tool
4.1 What this Chapter is About
4.2 The Basic Principles of the Productivity Assessment Tool
4.3 Running the Productivity Assessment Tool
4.4 Applications of the Productivity Assessment Tool
4.5 Reporting and Decision-Making
5 Case Studies
5.1 The Argument for and Against Better Working Conditions
5.2 Overview of the Case Studies
5.3 References
5A Industrial Cleaning: Safer at a Lower Cost
5A.1 Summary
5A.2 Who is the Cleaning Industry?
5A.3 Capital Investment
5A.4 Costing for Contracts
5A.5 Quality Control
5A.6 The Workplace
5A.7 Work Organisation
5A.8 Individual Cleaning Tasks
5A.9 Working and Exposure Time
5A.10 Training
5A.11 Cost-Benefit Analysis
5B Permanent or Precarious Employment? The Hospitality Industry
5B.1 Summary
5B.2 Precarious Employment
5B.3 Occupational Health and Safety Responsibilities
5B.4 The Workplace
5B.5 Cost-Benefit Analysis
5B.6 Reference
5C Why Lift Patients when There’s a Better Way? Reducing Back Injuries in the Health Industry
5C.1 Summary
5C.2 The First Essential – The Right Lifting Equipment
5C.3 Getting the Staffing Right
5C.4 Costs Versus Benefits
5C.5 Design and Redesign
5C.6 References
5D Large-Scale Experiments: Valuable but Not Easy to Carry Out
5D.1 Summary
5D.2 Are Workplace Health and Social Services Cost-Effective?
5D.3 A Change of Work Organisation – A Comparison Between Two Factories
5E Manual Handling
5E.1 Summary
5E.2 Warehouse Work – Truck Loading
5E.3 Manual Handling Made Easy: Barrel Handling
5E.4 Manual Handling in Coal Mines
Reference
5F Personal Protective Clothing and Equipment
5F.1 Summary
5F.2 Hand Protection and Cost Control
5F.3 High-Cost Eye Protection for Welders
5F.4 Cost-Effective Noise Control
5F.5 Reference
5G Prevention and Rehabilitation
5G.1 Summary
5G.2 Prevention is Better Than Cure
5G.3 Workplace Redesign to Incorporate Rehabilitation
5G.4 Rehabilitation of a Professional Employee
6 New Supervisory Systems
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Setting the Scene – Call Centres as the New Supervisory System
6.3 Comparison Between Technologies
6.4 What Can Be Done to Ensure Good Health Among Operators?
6.5 Case Studies
6.6 References
7 Ethics
7.1 Why Ethics?
7.2 Cost-Benefit Analysis
7.3 Precarious Workers
7.4 Implementation of Ergonomics
7.5 Conflict of Interests
7.6 Intent
7.7 Responsibility
7.8 The Means or the End?
7.9 Principles of Ethics
7.10 Guidelines and Codes of Practice
7.11 Conclusion
7.12 References
8 Installing and Running the Productivity Assessment Tool

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