Report - Prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders in practice
Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are the most common work-related health problem in Europe, affecting millions of workers. The Lighten the Load campaign featured the Good Practice Awards, which recognise organisations that have made outstanding and innovative contributions to tackling MSDs. The awards promote and encourage practical solutions in workplaces and share this good practice around Europe. This publication contains the summaries of 20 working examples of how companies and organisations from across the EU have taken action against MSDs.
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European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
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15.02.2008
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Chapters in this Publication
Chapter 1 - Let's have a look at loads
This chapter is a part of the Agency's "Prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders in practice report" and includes the case study that demonstrates successful actions and interventions used to manage and prevent the MSDs risks in a company producing cable harnesses for the automobile industry. Read more...Chapter 2 - The ergonomic design of workplaces and work organisation in a small to medium size enterprise
This chapter is a part of the Agency's "Prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders in practice report" and includes the case study that demonstrates successful actions and interventions used to manage and prevent the MSDs risks in a fettler's workplace. Read more...Chapter 3 - Systematic ergonomic workplace design in sewing work
This chapter is a part of the Agency's "Prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders in practice report" and includes the case study that demonstrates successful actions and interventions used to manage and prevent the MSDs risks in manufacturing of textiles Read more...Chapter 4 - A running rail to cut the risks of manual handling in a tomato greenhouse
This chapter is a part of the Agency's "Prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders in practice report" and includes the case study that demonstrates successful actions and interventions used to manage and prevent the MSDs risks in agriculture Read more...Chapter 5 - Reduction of lifting through smart design
This chapter is a part of the Agency's "Prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders in practice report" and includes the case study that demonstrates successful actions and interventions used to manage and prevent the MSDs risks in road construction Read more...Chapter 6 - Replacement of wooden pallets by incorporating a recessed component into the product
This chapter is a part of the Agency's "Prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders in practice report" and includes the case study that demonstrates successful actions and interventions used to manage and prevent the MSDs risks in production of construction materials Read more...Chapter 7 - A comprehensive approach to reduce the risk of MSDs
This chapter is a part of the Agency's "Prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders in practice report" and includes the case study that demonstrates successful actions and interventions used to manage and prevent the MSDs risks in rubber manufacturing Read more...Chapter 8 - Dealing with the musculoskeletal problems of guide dog trainers and mobility instructors
This chapter is a part of the Agency's "Prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders in practice report" and includes the case study that demonstrates successful actions and interventions used to manage and prevent the MSDs risks for the guide dog trainers Read more...Chapter 9 - Use of participatory ergonomics to identify and solve high-risk tasks
This chapter is a part of the Agency's "Prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders in practice report" and includes the case study that demonstrates successful actions and interventions used to manage and prevent the MSDs risks in the pharmaceutical industry Read more...Chapter 10 - Innovative work organisation for moving supplies
This chapter is a part of the Agency's "Prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders in practice report" and includes the case study that demonstrates successful actions and interventions used to manage and prevent the MSDs risks in physically demanding tasks. Read more...Chapter 11 - A comprehensive lifting policy for the prevention of back complaints among home helpers
This chapter is a part of the Agency's "Prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders in practice report" and includes the case study that demonstrates successful actions and interventions used to manage and prevent the MSDs risks in home care Read more...Chapter 12 - Integrated operator fatigue reduction programme
This chapter is a part of the Agency's "Prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders in practice report" and includes the case study that demonstrates successful actions and interventions used to manage and prevent the MSDs risks for the assembly lines of transformers operators. Read more...Chapter 13 - Prevention of musculoskeletal disorders among nursing and care staff
This chapter is a part of the Agency's "Prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders in practice report" and includes the case study that demonstrates successful actions and interventions used to manage and prevent the MSDs risks in healthcare. Read more...Chapter 14 - Management of equipment/aids for the manual movement of patients
This chapter is a part of the Agency's "Prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders in practice report" and includes the case study that demonstrates successful actions and interventions used to manage and prevent the MSDs risks in healthcare. Read more...Chapter 15 - Assistance in the cleavage and grading of stone material
This chapter is a part of the Agency's "Prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders in practice report" and includes the case study that demonstrates successful actions and interventions used to manage and prevent the MSDs risks in the porphyry working process. Read more...Chapter 16 - Modernisation of a ceramics factory to prevent manual lifting
This chapter is a part of the Agency's "Prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders in practice report" and includes the case study that demonstrates successful actions and interventions used to manage and prevent the MSDs risks in the ceramics production. Read more...Chapter 17 - Using targeted analysis to achieve an "ErgoPlus" recognised industrial workplace
This chapter is a part of the Agency's "Prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders in practice report" and includes the case study that demonstrates successful actions and interventions used to manage and prevent the MSDs risks in the agricultural machineries production. Read more...Chapter 18 - Preventing manual handling of residents in a care home
This chapter is a part of the Agency's "Prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders in practice report" and includes the case study that demonstrates successful actions and interventions used to manage and prevent the MSDs risks in the care homes. Read more...Chapter 19 - Automatisation of visual inspection
This chapter is a part of the Agency's "Prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders in practice report" and includes the case study that demonstrates successful actions and interventions used to manage and prevent the MSDs risks during the anode blocks inspection tasks. Read more...Chapter 20 - Participative development of work methods (SATKE, Taske)
This chapter is a part of the Agency's "Prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders in practice report" and includes the case study that demonstrates successful actions and interventions used to manage and prevent the MSDs risks among the workers in mobile construction sites. Read more...The report shows that emergency workers have a high risk of suffering fatal accidents, injuries and other occupational diseases. Past disasters demonstrate that both communities and companies are often not fully prepared for major accidents and catastrophes. Better protection for emergency workers against occupational hazards should be given high priority, as current environmental, economic, and political developments suggest an increase in the severity and frequency of future disasters.
In 2009 and 2010, the Agency commissioned an update to its previous research on gender issues at work , which found that inequality both inside and outside the workplace can have an effect on the health and safety of women at work. This summary provides a policy perspective and is meant to contribute to the task outlined by the European strategy on health and safety at work for EU-OSHA’s European Risk Observatory, “examining the specific challenges in terms of health and safety posed by the more extensive integration of women in the labour market”. It provides a statistical overview of the trends in employment and working conditions, hazard exposure and work-related accidents and health problems for women at work. It explores selected issues (combined exposures, occupational cancer, access to rehabilitation, women and informal work, and “emerging” female professions such as home care and domestic work). The research highlights the type of work carried out by women, issues faced by younger and older women, the growth of the service sector, violence and harassment, and increasingly diversified working time patterns as major risk factors.
The transport sector is one of the growing sectors in the European economy and highly affected by change: a growing proportion of women, migrant and part-time workers, rapid ageing of the workforce and many technological innovations. Transport workers are exposed to multiple physical risks, suffer violence, and many have unusual working times and repetitive and monotonous work. The consequences are high accident rates, musculoskeletal disorders, stress and fatigue. This report reviews the OSH risks of a wide variety of transport occupations, by analysing statistics and studies, and through selected case examples of prevention. The report has a broad scope: it covers all transport subsectors (rail, water, air and road) and is intended for both those working in the sector and policymakers.
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