The website provides information and help for young people living with rheumatism on following topics:
What do they have to consider when choosing a career?
How to deal with their rheumatism when writing the letter of application and how to prepare for the job interview?
Young people will also find good practice examples about other young people living with rheumatism and their career.
In Germany, 20 million people suffer from over 100 different forms of rheumatism, such as chronic back pain, fibromyalgia and arthrosis or inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis or ankylosing spondylitis. Finding — and keeping — a job that works within the limitations imposed by rheumatoid arthritis can be a challenge for many people who live with the painful disease. Participation in working life is particularly important for people with rheumatism.
This booklet provides a practical and definitive source of guidance and information to help employers deal with the long-term health implications of people suffering with rheumatoid arthritis. You will find information about the disease and how it can affect people at work, the kind of difficulties it can cause and how these may be overcome. It also includes up-todate details of where employers can go for help and advice on the law relating to disability, on best practice and on making adjustments for employees at work and the possible financial help that is also available.
This booklet has information about Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), how it can affect people at work, the kind of difficulties it can cause and how these may be overcome. It also includes up to date information of where employers can go for help and advice on the law relating to disability, on best practice and on making reasonable adjustments for employees at work. The booklet is illustrated with many pictures and easy to understand.
Exercise is one of the best things you can do to improve your symptoms of arthritis. This website provides exercises to manage pain in different areas and organs of your body. The exercises are described and illustrated.
Disability Confident is creating a movement of change, encouraging employers to think differently about disability and take action to improve how they recruit, retain and develop disabled people. Being Disability Confident is a unique opportunity to lead the way in your community, and you might just discover someone your business cannot do without. It was developed by employers and disabled people’s representatives to make it rigorous but easily accessible – particularly for smaller businesses.
Carrying schoolbags has a major impact on a child's back health. An inappropriately or incorrectly packed schoolbag may contribute to low back pain in children. This article provides schoolbag safety tips: how to properly set up and pack the schoolbag ways to support your childs spines.
The Healthy Workplaces Campaign 2020-2022, Healthy Workplaces Lighten the Load, aims to raise awareness of work-related MSDs and disseminate information about how they can be prevented and managed. The campaign is coordinated at national level by EU-OSHA’s focal points and supported by official campaign and media partners and the Enterprise Europe Network. It has six main objectives: