Moving and handling people in healthcare work can lead to musculoskeletal injuries and pain. The health care profession has been shown to be one of the occupation most at risk for back pain. A high proportion of health care professionals report musculoskeletal diseases (MSDs) and the primary cause for MSDs are patient handling tasks such as lifting, transferring, and repositioning of patients.

The OOSHOP warehouse in Villeneuve-la-Garenne, in the Hauts-de-Seine, is one of the three sites of the brand, a subsidiary of Carrefour specialising in home shopping delivery. Every day, 850 deliveries are prepared there. A task that exposes the pickers to the risk of RSI, particularly due to the handling of large trolleys that can weigh up to 270 kilos when loaded.

To relieve its employees, the company decided to upgrade this equipment. After discussions with the pickers, a lighter truck was tested and an electric drive wheel system was adopted.

In the catering industry, carrying hundreds of trays daily can be a source of RSI. To address this, the Rainforest Café has reduced the weight of its tableware. 

For example, by switching to polycarbonate carafes, the restaurant management reduced the weight of the carafes from 800g to 290g. The material is also unbreakable and causes less noise.

The Rothschild Hospital in Paris opened in 2010. It was designed to take into account disability, the physical dependence of patients and the comfort of patients and staff. Dedicated for the most part to follow-up and rehabilitation care, it is a pilot establishment, within the AP-HP, for the management of improved working conditions.

Faced with a dazzling rise in production, the company HSE, a local producer of Martinique agricultural rum, had to rethink its packaging line to meet demand. The company has installed various pieces of equipment that have made it possible to automate certain tasks and have reduced staff exposure to the risk of musculoskeletal disorders.

Révillon chocolatier mainly manufactures top-of-the-range papillotes, these chocolate sweets wrapped in glossy paper, with maxims associated or not with firecrackers, which are given as Christmas presents. Throughout the process, operators are likely to be exposed to risks: handling, falls and slips, dust, cuts, crossing of machine-pedestrian flows, burns, machine risks, MSDs. Since 2001, the company has been constantly improving the working conditions of its employees and has been working particularly on the prevention of MSD.

Alliance Élaborés has a traditionally manual activity. For more than ten years, this specialist in frozen processed products based in Foucarmont, Seine-Maritime, has made the fight against musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) one of its priorities. In the stuffed tomato workshop, a few cases of tendonitis had occurred among operators assigned to cutting tomatoes: working in the cold increases the risk of musculoskeletal disorders (MSD).

In response to questions from the union council of the "Quai 2" residence in Bordeaux about the arduous nature of the work of one of its employees, the cleaning company Vidimus Sud-Ouest, with the support of Carsat Aquitaine, has acquired a push tractor that makes it easier and safer to remove waste containers. The push tractor acquired by Vidimus enables its employee to pull up trains of three to four containers with one hand along slopes of 10%.

In 2014, Spartoo, an e-tailer specialising in footwear, decided to re-internalise the logistics part of its business, which had previously been entrusted to a service provider. To this end, the company created a subsidiary called Toolog. The warehouse and processes were designed to limit handling and protect the health of its employees. The circuit and operation of the conveyor belt that runs through the 23,000 m² warehouse and takes the products from the delivery area to the stocks and the dispatch area have been designed to reduce handling to a minimum.