The aim of this article is to provide a guide for the selection of easy-to-use, usable and research-based assessment tools for the assessment of risk for work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) during the SLIC Campaign 2022 ‘Healthy Workplaces Lighten the load’.

This leaflet provides valuable tips for optimal workplace design and shows how workers can protect themselves from the harmful consequences of standing up. Working long standing hours can cause pain and is a health risk.

This practical guide provides information about how to perform a correct manual handling of loads under optimal ergonomic conditions.

This brochure is aimed at workers and their safety representatives with the aim of raising awareness and involving everyone in the prevention of MSDs, both through proper individual behaviour, respectful of their own health and that of others, and to ask the employer for appropriate instructions and...

In this manual, an introduction to ergonomics is introduced, some musculoskeletal disorders and their causes are described, as well as the basic ergonomic design principles of a job. Its goal is to help workers recognize and, on the other hand, cope with the problems arising from the bad design of...

Provision of useful information and good practices on manual handling in the field of companies operating in the retail sector, for supporting the national campaign implemented in the framework of the European SLIC campaign on “Manual handling”, 2007-2008.

This booklet provides good practice information for the prevention of risks related to MSDs in various high risks work and sectors, using cartoon characters for illustrating do’s and don’ts cases.