This article presents several economic and legal issues related to home-based teleworking (including the OSH related ones: safety and ergonomics).

This guide has been put together as an introduction to the management of manual handling in the construction sector. The main objectives of the guide are: To present the business case for managing the hazard of manual handling in construction To outline briefly the legislation that relates to manual...

This factsheet aims to highlight the physical risk factors associated with the manual handling of roof panels and to present examples of how such risk factors can be reduced.

This informative guide provides practical advice to employers, occupational safety specialists on how to arrange lifting and handling work for employees in order to avoid shifting weights with physical force. It includes technical measures and equipment.

All the organisation of work associated with the grape harvesting and transportation to the processing equipment was implemented with the objective of reducing, as much as possible, the manual effort associated with the transportation of grapes from the vines to the processing equipment and...

Traditionally the collecting of fruits was performed using mobile ladders (extension ladders and double sided step ladders). The efficiency of the collection process was very low and the risk to accidents and health problems to the workers was very high. Simultaneously to reduce workload on the...