This guideline was developed as a professional recommendation how to avoid long- term sitting at the workplace and thereby reduce the negative impact of the risks arising from long-term sitting. This guideline has the purpose of recognizing risks at workplaces where long-term sitting can be avoided.

This leaflet provides valuable tips for optimal workplace design and shows how workers can protect themselves from the harmful consequences of standing up. Working long standing hours can cause pain and is a health risk.

This risk assessment tool focuses on ten important aspects related to the workplace design and assesses work postures and movements for the five body parts back, neck, shoulders/arms, hands, hips/legs.

This booklet gives information about physical activity and preventing sedentary behaviour in the work environment. It contains information about the health effects as well as practical tips in order to stay physically active during work.

The purpose of this brochure is to help employers to do a risk assessment on the manual handling of loads.

A series of short videos (in the chapters of the FCOS Box) shows how to ensure greater safety in the office, including ergonomics, and which factors need to be considered to achieve this. Each chapter contains practical tips and they are also downloadable as pdf.