Procedimiento para valorar el impacto económico y social de los programas de intervención ergonómica en la ESPAM MFL

This research aims to introduce a procedure allowing to assess the economic and social impact of ergonomic intervention programs, same that can be applied by any institution public or private. This study was conducted in the Agricultural Polytechnic School of Manabí Manuel Felix Lopez, through a literature search in methods that ergonomically improve the work place; considering all the procedures used in the methodologies: human cost and economic; analysis of the costs, effectiveness, utility and profit, raised by the studied authors. The procedure has four stages which are detailed in the following manner: stage I. Description of the current situation, stage II. Development of the program of improvements, stage III. Application of stage IV and improvement actions. Monitoring and control. At the end is an example for the implementation of the first stage of the procedure to assess improvement programs, using as a reference the diagnosis of conditions of work in units of teaching, research and linkage of the career. The application of the procedure allowed to know the advantages, disadvantages, cost and effectiveness of the implementation of the program of improvements raised after ergonomic diagnosis, through the application of the formulas for economic measurement and through the survey to assess the social impact, allowing to obtain the benefits of the actions to improve both for the well-being of workers and for the productivity of the company.

• Main Author: Intriago Muñoz, Martha Virginia (author)
• Other Authors: Villamar Cueva, Evelyn Estefanía (author)
• Format: bachelorThesis
• Language: spa
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Metodología; Medición; Costos; Seguridad; Bienestar; Productividad
• Online Access: http://repositorio.espam.edu.ec/handle/42000/397