Short leaflet for workers on how to support their mental health whilst home working.
The COVID-19 pandemic has meant that more people than ever before are teleworking – using information and communications technologies to do their work away from the office. An ILO Working Time expert explains how to get the best out of teleworking.
In the context of Covid-19, the resources on this webpage include a short video on how to set up your workstation that provides suggestions for improving how you can improve the ergonomics.
A number of tools and guidance documents have been developed by Member States, European institutions, business associations, social partners and other actors to help enterprises to carry out comprehensive and effective risk assessments. These tools represent a broad variety of approaches to managing dangerous substance effectively. Often they cover specific work operations, such as filling and pumping liquids or welding processes. Other sources give a comprehensive overview of a certain group of substances, such as sensitisers, or they highlight typical risks in certain sectors.
Moreover, in addition to supporting high-quality risk assessment, most of these tools include good practical solutions, explaining how to reduce risks in common work situations involving exposure to dangerous substances. There are also tools to support specific actors, such as labour inspectors, small and medium-sized enterprises, and workers’ representatives, among many others. So it’s well worth exploring the site to find out about the help that is on offer.
To make it easy for workplaces to assess and manage MSD risks, our easy-to-use database includes a variety of practical tools and guidance materials developed at EU and national levels.
The resources include case studies and visual materials and cover a wide range of sectors, hazard types and prevention measures. Some are specifically aimed at certain actors, for example employers, workers or managers, and some at managing MSDs among specific groups of workers. The resources can be filtered by any of these or by a variety of other categories, so it couldn’t be easier to find exactly what you are looking for.
Our user-friendly databases of practical tools and guidance make it easy for workplaces to assess and manage their occupational safety and health risks. Developed at EU and national levels, the resources include links to websites, checklists, tools, case studies and visual materials. They cover a wide range of sectors, hazard types and prevention measures.
You can filter the resources by country and language, sector, tasks, worker groups and topics, among others.
Take your time to explore everything that is on hand for safer and healthier workplaces.
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This report presents how hairdressers are exposed to conditions that can cause or exacerbate musculoskeletal disorders (MSD). The purpose of this scoping review is to gain insight into the current state of research on MSD in hairdressing.
This statistical report cites two main sources for WRMSD statistics. The first is the Labour Force Survey (LFS), an annual survey of 37,000 households in Great Britain. The second is analysis from a survey of occupationally trained General Practitioners across Great Britain called, “The health and occupation reporting network of general practitioners” (THOR-GP).