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The leaflet from the Austrian Social Accident Insurance AUVA provides information about the risks related to manual handling of patients. Photos with detailed descriptions show the right techniques to handle patients ergonomically.

This leaflet provided by the Austrian Social Accident Insurance AUVA shows with appealing pictures and little text how to perform cleaning tasks ergonomically.

This leaflet presents 5 practical and simple tips for designing your computerised workstation.

Although ergonomic recommendations for equipment, layout and organisation for the home office exist and are known to people who work regularly at home, this is not necessarily the case for those who find themselves having to work at home suddenly because of COVID-19. The ergonomic design of a screen workstation improvised with "the means at hand" in a hurry is likely to fall short of the comfort level of your usual workstation. This is why it is important to react quickly to even the slightest discomfort by regularly changing position and adapting your workstation accordingly.

This video presents the risks of MSD in the home care sector and presents simple solutions to prevent them.

Jeremy, a talented comedian, is confronted with the risks of accidents and vital rules on building sites. He plays various characters: conductor, Batman, inspector, angel or demon (season 1), James Bond (season 2) and trainee (season 3). With a touch of humour, the videos convey serious and vital messages to the workers, who are the real heroes on the construction sites.Unfortunately, the handling of loads with or without equipment is often the cause of accidents. Jeremy - sometimes an angel, sometimes a devil - is torn between good and bad behaviour.