Estimating investment worthiness of an ergonomic intervention for preventing low back pain from a firm's perspective
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Estimating investment worthiness of an ergonomic intervention for preventing low back pain from a firm's perspective.
A mathematical model was developed for estimating the net present value (NPV) of the cash flow resulting from an investment in an intervention to prevent occupational low back pain (LBP). It combines biomechanics, epidemiology, and finance to give an integrated tool for a firm to use to estimate the investment worthiness of an intervention based on a biomechanical analysis of working postures a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Applied Ergonomics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0003-6870
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2008.10.004