This booklet provides information on the effects of lifting and carrying on the human body. It provides facts on the load of the musculoskeletal systems in different tasks, gives insights in the effects of these loads. It also gives a lot of practical tips on how to make sure you perform these...

On this YouTube play list one can find all relevant lifting and moving techniques to make sure patients can be transported in a way which is not harmful for the body of the care taker.

This website provides information (and a short film) about several interventions in the healthcare industry. Healthcare workers make diagnoses and prognoses all day long, but it isn’t always easy for them to recognize signs and symptoms of injury in themselves. Although hospitals and other...

This brochure is intended to reduce the physical strain of those affected by measures that lie within their own scope of action; show body-appropriate, back-friendly behaviours and working techniques; make limits of physical resilience visible;- offer a small selection of strengthening and balancing...

This video shows some basic tips on workplace ergonomics that apply to almost all workplaces. For instance, workplaces in the office, in the hospital and in construction.

In this video, workers in ranching, mining, timber and fire talk about the history of hard work in Montana and the promising future of working smarter and safer than ever. This video is made in honour of the 100th anniversary of Montana’s Workers’ Compensation Act and made by the Montana State Fund...

This brochure on assembly and repair of heavy machinery and/or aggregates intends to make it's user aware of the unfavourable postures workers are required to work in and the heavy loads they must handle. This brochure gives insights in how to make sure these tasks are done in an more ergonomically...