Type Guides & Tools
USA
LanguageEnglish
ProviderOregon Occupational Safety and Health (Oregon OSHA)
Information about how shoulder and neck injuries develop in construction workers and what techniques can be used in order to avoid these.
Type Visual resources
USA
LanguageEnglish
ProviderOccupational Health and Safety Authority
This handout gives practical information/insights on cumulative trauma injuries and how to avoid them, providing alternative work methods. This handout specifically targets housekeepers (in hotels and other buildings)
Type Visual resources, Guides & Tools
USA
LanguageEnglish
ProviderTriMedia Environmental & Engineering Firm
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...
Type Guides & Tools
USA
LanguageEnglish
ProviderOccupational Health and Safety Authority
These updated guidelines provide recommendations for poultry processing facilities to reduce the number and severity of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). In preparing the following recommendations, OSHA reviewed existing practices and programs as well as available scientific...
Type Guides & Tools
USA
LanguageEnglish
ProviderCalifornia Department of Industrial Relations
This booklet is written for managers and supervisors in industries that involve the manual handling of containers. It offers suggestions to improve the handling of rectangular, square, and cylindrical containers, sacks, and bags. “Improving Manual Material Handling in Your Workplace” lists the...
Type Visual resources, Guides & Tools
Island
LanguageIcelandic
ProviderAdministration of Occupational Safety and Health
This brochure related to ergonomics is intended to help reduce and prevent MSDs at the workplace.
Type Guides & Tools
USA
LanguageEnglish
ProviderOccupational Health and Safety Authority
The information in these guidelines provides grocery stores with effective approaches, as well as useful references to be used when determining the need for ergonomic solutions. The recommendations and information presented here are intended as a general guideline and flexible framework to be...