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.

This report pulls together and analyses existing data relating to MSDs from the main EU surveys and administrative data. These data are completed and enriched with data from national sources. The report aims to provide a well-founded evidence base to support policy makers, researchers and the...

This book offers a multi-faceted orientation in the prerequisites for healthy and effective human work. It is intended to help budding system designers and production engineers tackle these design challenges holistically.

This brochure is about repetitive work: work where similar movements are repeated over and over. This can have negative health effects and should therefore be avoided. Here you will find advice on measures to reduce the risks.

This general brochure for the prevention of musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) has been developed to meet the need for a comprehensive information tool on the risk of MSDs. This guide has three main objectives: to know how the musculoskeletal system works, to understand how it can deteriorate and to...

This report includes Case 5.1: A French printing company needing to address the MSDs and absenteeism affecting its mainly female staff in its finishing workshop. They obtained help from the regional association for the improvement of working conditions (ARACT). Ergonomic solutions were put in place...

This document provides instructions associated with the Workplace Ergonomic Risk Assessment (WERA) method, and observational tool developed to provide a method of screening the working task quickly for exposure physical risk factor associated with MSDs.