Marginal socio-economic effects of an employer's efforts to improve the work environment
Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
;
: 1-2018.
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em Inglês
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| ID: wpr-762545
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Workplace health promotion (WHP) strongly requires the employer’s efforts to improve the psychosocial, ergonomic, and physical environments of the workplace. There are many studies discussing the socio-economic advantage of WHP intervention programmes and thus the internal and external factors motivating employers to implement and integrate such programmes. However, the socio-economic impacts of the employer’s multifactorial efforts to improve the work environment need to be adequately assessed.METHODS:
Data were collected from Swedish company Sandvik Materials Technology (SMT) through a work environment survey in April 2014. Different regression equations were analysed to assess marginal effects of the employer’s efforts on overall labour effectiveness (OLE), informal work impairments (IWI), lost working hours (LWH), and labour productivity loss (LPL) in terms of money.RESULTS:
The employer’s multifactorial efforts resulted in increasing OLE, decreasing IWI and illness-related LWH, and cost savings in terms of decreasing LPL.CONCLUSION:
Environmental factors at the workplace are the important determinant factor for OLE, and the latter is where socio-economic impacts of the employer’s efforts primarily manifest.
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Índice:
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Assunto principal:
Redução de Custos
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Eficiência
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Promoção da Saúde
Tipo de estudo:
Avaliação Econômica em Saúde
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Pesquisa qualitativa
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Ano de publicação:
2018
Tipo de documento:
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