This brochure is about what employers and employees are responsible for preventing injuries due to incorrect or inappropriate loads. It includes a checklist for helping identify risks.

This brochure is about repetitive work: work where similar movements are repeated over and over. This can have negative health effects and should therefore be avoided. Here you will find advice on measures to reduce the risks.

This webpage presents general and practical information in order to prevent MSDs in different sectors/jobs. It focuses for example on computer work, working in hospitals and care and cleaning.

This video contains a summary review of the research-based knowledge of what physical variation is, what types of measures one can think of in working life to increase (or change) the content of variation in a job, and what evidence exists for different types of action Indeed, increased variation (e...

The first part of this video concerns MSDs in a fish factory. By looking at the organisational differences in men's and women's tasks it shows how this leads to gender differences in the ill health suffered by the men and women. It is an animation film with voiceover. Available in English and...

This is an app that allows to easily measure the load on an arm. The app gives direct answers on how an arm is loaded, angle on the arm and can easily be used to compare two different working methods. The results of the measurements are visible in the app and can be saved as a file that can be...

This document provides general information on preventing MSDs and presents different risk assessment methods. The purpose of these provisions on ergonomics for the prevention of MSDs is to order and design workplaces and tasks so as to prevent risks of health-endangering or unnecessarily fatiguing...