Costs and benefits of preventing workplace accidents: The case of participatory ergonomics |
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Authors: | Paul Lanoie Sophie Tavenas |
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Affiliation: | École des Hautes Études Commerciales, 5255, avenue Decelles, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3T 1V6 |
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Abstract: | This paper provides a cost-benefit analysis of a participatory ergonomics program conducted at the beginning of the 1990s to reduce back-related disorders among packers at a warehouse of the Société des Alcools du Québec in Quebec City. After evaluating the costs of the program, we present a rigorous econometric analysis to assess how many accidents have been prevented by the program so as to compute the direct and indirect costs avoided as a result of such accident reduction. We show that the program has indeed been profitable for the firm. |
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