Type Guides & Tools
EU
LanguageEnglish
ProviderEU-OSHA
This articles focuses on MSDs and professional drivers. It identifies the main MSD-related risk factors and provides information about how to prevent MSDs and promote a good musculoskeletal health among motor vehicle drivers.
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 Visual resources
Belgie
LanguageFrench
ProviderSPF Employment
This film in French, with English subtitles, explains the origin of MSDs and shows good prevention practices that help limit these risks at work.
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 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...
Type Guides & Tools
EU
LanguageEnglish
ProviderEU OSHA
This articles presents MSDs as the leading cause of work-related health problems in the healthcare sector. The effects for staff, organisations and society include sickness absence, injuries and disability, increased costs, higher employee turnover, lower productivity and staff leaving the...
