How Can Ergonomics Affect the Bottom-Line?
Ergonomics helps workers function better by humanizing their workstations and tools, stopping their pain and improving their ability for task performance. Its prescriptions can be applied to both white and blue collar workstation environments. It reduces lost time, time loss, absenteeism and saves hard dollars that can be measured through standard management systems. Ergonomic applications allow workers to perform better, improve productivity, maximize quality and maintain customer service, all real world business principles and thus measurable by real dollars. It is also now becoming well known that ergonomics applications can reduce worker compensation and medical costs. That’s easy to measure. But other than that, how do you measure the result of ergonomic applications, actual productivity, especially in the white collar area? Sure ergonomic chairs make people feel better, but how do you measure that effectiveness on the financial statement? Bottom Line Benefits of Ergonomics Applic
