This short manual is intended to employers, workers and prevention specialists and provides information about preventive measures in order to avoid accidents due to overexertion.

This checklist includes questions on working postures of the back and neck, arms and hands, legs during sitting and standing tasks. It also gives examples of the type of action at a technical, organisational and individual level that can be put in place to prevent or reduce the risks caused by...

Brochure about prevention of work-related musculoskeletal overloads. The brochure contains both information on MSDs in general, as well as practical information in what companies and employees could do to prevent them .

This publication refers only to the MSDs of the upper limbs. It details the main risk of injuries of the upper limbs, the main risk factors and the corresponding preventive measures , with special emphasis on the design and redesign of workplaces. It includes lots of drawings to be easy to...

This article aims to show how to adapt the workplace to make it a more healthy and productive environment for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis patients. The article, published in the journal Psoriasi no. 85 (spring 2016), is a translation of an article by the National Psoriasis Foundation (NPF)...

This Guide is provided by the International Social Security Association (ISSA) to support Mmall and Medium Sized Enterprises to carry out a risk assessment. It is intended to conform to the requirement for a risk assessment during operations with manual load handling.

This fact sheet highlights the key findings of the EU-OSHA's prevention report, which focuses on the prevention of MSDs and the development and progress made in this area since the previous MSDs campaign in 2000. The report consists of two parts: a state-of-the-art review of the research literature...