Header logos section
Header form
This website provides an overview of the health risks associated with long periods of sitting, the benefits of regular movement, and strategies that persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) and workers can implement to reduce sitting time at work. These strategies are easy to understand and simple to apply in any kind of working environment.
This guide provides information on how to conduct a risk assessment on manual tasks identified as being hazardous. In this information, several references to other sources of information which cab be useful on this topic, are given. This guideline is a good starting point for entrepreneurs and/or OSH consultants in Australia to start a risk assessment.
This film shows how businesses across various industries are identifying and managing hazardous manual tasks. The film will walk you through a process to help you engage with your workers to identify hazardous manual tasks, assess the risks, identify controls and monitor their suitability to reduce injury, increase productivity and improve workers’ health and wellbeing. The film is 10 minutes long an in the film different people from different sectors are questioned about MSDs, based on real-life working situations.
On this website, some frequently asked questions on musculoskeletal issues are answered. Questions like 'How much can I safely lift?', and 'what is ergonomics?' are answered. The information gives an insight in the regulations on Musculoskeletal Disorders in Australia and can be seen as a quick reference guide on MSDs.
On this website, information about how to run a so called 'your world mapping' session is displayed. A 'your world map' gives a visual picture of how problems inside work cause problems outside of work. Instead of negotiating health and safety improvements piecemeal, the real underlying issues can be identified and tackled.
On this website, information about how to run a hazard mapping session is displayed. Hazard mapping can be useful to discover workplace design issues which may cause MSDs.
On this website, information about how to run a body mapping session is displayed, including a body map itself. Body mapping can be used to discover MSDs so is therefore a helpful tool.
This information sheet covers a number of different techniques you may find useful in your workplace in order to make an assessment about health issues. It addresses body mapping, risk mapping, conducting surveys, and several (ergonomic) checklists about several different workplaces.
This Checklist is based on the sources of risk identified in the Hazardous Manual Tasks Code of Practice. The Checklist is designed to assist managers, workplace health staff and rehabilitation providers with identifying and addressing body stressing injury risk across a number of domains:
PErforM is a simple manual task risk management program which provides "a framework to help employers engage with workers at all levels to identify, assess and control manual tasks risks within their workplace. The idea of PErforM is that the worker is the expert in performing their work tasks." The PErforM program has been used successfully in a wide range of industries where potentially hazardous manual tasks are performed. It is not recommended for people and animal handling tasks or computer workstation assessments.
