Poster raising awareness on MSDs: painful disorders of muscles, tendons, and nerves that develop over time from tasks that repeatedly cause stress and injury to tissues
Workplace solutions for back pain, tennis elbow and other musculoskeletal disorders (MSD), because work shouldn't hurt:.
Quick start guideline: This guideline is intended to help businesses improve office work and help prevent pain at work.
Basic step by step guideline: This BASIC version of the Guideline is intended for medium to large companies with an existing Health and Safety program who wish to improve their problem-solving approach to prevent MSD.
This checklist shows the basic steps for MSD prevention. These steps are based on the MSD prevention framework in the MSD Prevention Guideline for Ontario and the information provided in the Resource Manual for the MSD Prevention Guideline for Ontario. Workplaces that are just getting started can use this checklist to help them set up their MSD prevention process. Those that are already doing MSD prevention can use it to see if they are missing any of the basic elements and to help identify opportunities to strengthen their existing program
This document, in a language accessible to all, clarifies what MSDs are, how they are recognized, what factors contribute to their development and what means can be used to prevent them.
In collaboration with the IRSST and Auto Prevention, the research team produced five fact sheets on MSD prevention, grouped in a single PDF: car aesthetics; bodywork; mechanics under the hood; mechanics under the vehicle; tire service.
This document summarizes the key results of a major study of the risks of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) in emergency medical technician-paramedics (EMT-Ps) with the intent of: making stakeholders aware of the risks of MSDs associated with the profession of EMT-P and encouraging the development and implementation of various preventive measures and the enhancement of training and professional development activities
This checklist is a synthesis of the pragmatic recommendations arising from the research report R-942 by Marie-José Durand et al. published in 2016. It is intended to facilitate dialogue between the various actors or stakeholders involved in the return to work, including: health professionals contributing to the return and retention of workers injured in the course of their work; the workplace: the union, supervisors, the human resources department and colleagues of these workers; insurers.
The purpose of this document is to promote reflection, present strategies facilitating the application, by nursing staff, of practices for preventing musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), and propose ways of supporting the implementation of these strategies. The document is presented in the form of fact sheets on the six main factors that influence the application of MSD prevention practices. These fact sheets can be used to plan prevention activities or training sessions.
This tool allows managers and employees to better understand the nature and complexity of handling situations and to identify the presence of risks of musculoskeletal disorders. Presented in the form of five sheets, this tool also leads them to identify situations to be transformed and plan customized training for safe manual handling.
On this web portal recent knowledge and relevant information on the risks related to manual handling and the means of preventing musculoskeletal disorders can be found.