This guide presents the risks factors related to the manual handling of loads, the biomechanical principles of safety and economy of effort, and how to use the body.

Leaflet giving advice on how to handle loads. It gives scores for different ways on how to handle loads, showing the reader the best and the worst ways to handle loads.

This guideline is developed as a professional recommendation to evaluate occupational risk assessment, thereby complying Croatian law.

Designed as an expert recommendation on risk management in workplaces where manual workload cannot be avoided when performing work tasks, this guideline has been developed to help meet the legislative provisions in this area. This guideline provides a new SMART (Scoring Method for Assessment of...

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

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...