Citation

Lanoie P, Tavenas S. Safety Sci. 1996; 24(3): 181-196.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, Elsevier Publishing)

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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 Societe des Alcools du Quebec 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.