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Apply & Evaluate a Health Cost Calculation Model for Ergonomic Interventions: A case study at Volvo Cars, Torslanda, Sweden
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Krishnan, Vishnu Dustakar, Vinit Govinda Rao |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Abstract | The art of ergonomics has evolved over the years and the assembly operations at Volvo Cars are relatively more productive than ever. However, the risk of getting injured is still in the cards which paves the way for continuous improvements. The work related injuries occurring due to poor ergonomic conditions have been a major concern in today’s industries as these injuries immensely affect the overall productivity and cost a lot of money. Volvo Cars is striving towards achieving a state-of-the-art of sound ergonomics that reduces the risk of occupational health injuries. However, at times the engineers and ergonomists fail to convince the management to implement the proposed interventions due to lack of cost-related arguments. Hence, it becomes absolutely necessary for these stakeholders to work on translating the proposed interventions into monetary terms. This could be made possible with an appropriate calculation tool that validates the above stakeholders’ claim and identifies other hidden factors to assist them in obtaining funds for the intervention. This thesis work develops a health cost analysis tool for ergonomic interventions that involves scrutinizing the current health cost model and discussing the effects of adapting to different approaches, which help to identify the improvement potentials. The scope of this work is limited to analyzing the ergonomic conditions specific to the tailgate assembly at a Volvo Cars Plant in Sweden. With valuable inputs from interviews, a health cost tool has been created and validated to act as a decision support to the ergonomists and engineers in convincing the management. In addition, the authors further recommend to use this validated model as a skeleton for future studies at Volvo and incorporate the same across their other plants. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fulltext/256031/256031.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
