Silva M Pereira da, Pruffer C, Amaral F G
Production Engineering and Transportation Department, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Osvaldo Aranha 99, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
Work. 2012;41 Suppl 1:476-83. doi: 10.3233/WOR-2012-0199-476.
Many authors studied work situations and, mainly, ergonomics projects concerning the financial benefit point of view. At the same time seems to be little information available concerning these financial benefits in manufacturing companies' processes. The aim of this article is to identify if there enough information available within a company to quantify the financial benefits of an ergonomic project. The study was applied on two manufacturing companies, one in Brazil and other in Portugal. A literature review based checklist and a manager interview was applied on each company in order to identify if the information was available and how were been used. The two companies have revealed a good quantity of available information regarding ergonomics benefit calculation. The interviews showed that managers are not aware of the financial savings possibility with investments in ergonomics projects.
许多作者研究了工作场所情况，主要是从经济效益的角度研究人机工程学项目。与此同时，关于制造企业流程中这些经济效益的可用信息似乎很少。本文的目的是确定公司内部是否有足够的信息来量化人机工程学项目的经济效益。该研究在两家制造企业中进行，一家在巴西，另一家在葡萄牙。对每家公司都应用了基于文献综述的清单和对经理的访谈，以确定信息是否可用以及如何使用。这两家公司都揭示了关于人机工程学效益计算的大量可用信息。访谈表明，经理们没有意识到投资人机工程学项目可能带来的财务节省。
