Type Guides & Tools
EU
LanguageEnglish
ProviderEU OSHA
This article presents the risks faced by the workers in the waste management sector: manual handling (manipulating waste), working postures (prolonged standing), vibrations (driving vehicles, work equipment), chemical substances, biological agents, work organisation (pace of work, job control), etc.
Type Guides & Tools
EU
LanguageEnglish
ProviderEU OSHA
This article provides a general presentation of MSDs: prevalence, health effects, different types of MSDs, MSDs-related risks factors (biomechanical, organisational, psychosocial and individual).
Type Guides & Tools
EU
LanguageEnglish
ProviderEU OSHA
This article presents the nature of the work in the fishing industry including the several risk factors that contribute to the development of MSDs along with the comprehensive approach (combining measures both on an organisational and individual level) to prevent MSDs in the sector.
Type Visual resources
EU
LanguageEnglish
ProviderNapo consortium
These resources are to enable organisations to use Napo films to raise awareness about health and safety topics (including MSDs) within groups of their own staff and supply chains. The resources will enable organisations to deliver advice on health and safety topics, and will help generate...
Type Case study
Norsko
LanguageEnglish
ProviderEU OSHA
This series of short informative case studies looks at a range of policy level initiatives across Europe and beyond aiming to prevent and manage work-related MSDs. The studies focus on achievements, factors contributing to their success and challenges encountered, and transferability to other...
Type Guides & Tools
EU
LanguageEnglish
ProviderEU OSHA
The report highlights the main issues and aims to provide a well-founded evidence base, helping policy makers, actors at enterprise and sector level, as well as researchers and those who record, prevent and compensate occupational diseases in the European Union to set the agenda for the next years.
Type Guides & Tools
EU
LanguageEnglish
ProviderEU OSHA
This articles presents the origin of most MSDs. it lies in a mismatch between the external load and the capacity of the human body to resist biomechanical and physiological strain. Excessive forces can trigger different pathophysiological processes depending on the tissues affected. It is the...
