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 prevention solutions deemed necessary.

 

This is an app allowing users to analyse the lifting and carrying technique of a human. This can be done by using the camera of a smartphone to pick up a person while lifting an object, mark certain parts of the body with a few points, and then enter the weight of the person's weight, gender, and age. Based on the information, the app determines the load on the intervertebral discs. This is displayed and explained on a scale. The result can be sent by e-mail. In addition, you will find in the app concrete tips for improving the lifting and carrying technology. 

This brochure is intended to reduce the physical strain of those affected by measures that lie within their own scope of action; show body-appropriate, back-friendly behaviours and working techniques; make limits of physical resilience visible;- offer a small selection of strengthening and balancing exercises that specially adapted to the physical conditions for lifting and wearing; etc. 

 

This article focuses on the use of hazard mapping regarding hazards related to MSDs. Hazard mapping is a form of worker participation that concerns marking hazards at work stations on a map. Hazard mapping can be applied to various issues, such as work safety, working with chemicals, exposure to noise etc. This article focuses on the use of hazard mapping regarding hazards related to MSDs.