Wright (1994); Kerr, Knott, Moss, Clegg, and Horton
(2008); and Dul and Neumann (2009) discuss a new
way to insert ergonomics into the business community.
They consider adding the benefit of this subject to the
process of justifying investments in ergonomics. To realize
this approach, they started from the principle that
a limited vision of ergonomics attributes is not desirable,
and a limited view should not be the main basis
for the application of ergonomics in organizations.
One of the most important points of this discussion
is the need for economic justification in ergonomics
applications. In general, companies do not approve
programs that require a large investment without looking
for significant results; these results document and
reflect whether a project has succeeded (Kirwan, 2003).
According to Jenkins and Richards (2001), the key to
the success of justifying an ergonomics project is the approval
of management, which is obtained by incorporating
all of the costs and benefits that impact a specific
project into the analysis. The purpose of an economic
analysis of an occupational health and safety (OHS)