Costs and Benefits of Preventing Workplace Accidents: Going from a Mechanical to a Manual Handling System

Journal of Safety Research

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 65-75

  Lanoie, Paul ^a   Trottier, Louis ^b  

^a HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Costs; Manual handling mechanical handling; Workplace accidents

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011730634     PISSN: 00224375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-4375(98)00003-6     Document Type: Article

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