Workers at manufacturing plants are often required to lift, carry and drag heavy loads. This involves repeatedly using the same body parts and puts workers at risk of MSDs. This case study looks at an intervention to improve equipment and working conditions at a large PVC manufacturing plant in...

This case study looks at the collaboration of the Carsat occupational health and prevention organisation with factory management and employees to improve existing safety and health measures for line operators at an agribusiness packaging factory in France. The participatory approach involved...

The production of pork loin at the Spanish meat company Elaborados Julián Mairal is a process that involves considerable physical effort by their workers. To prevent MSDs, managers and employees consulted with an external prevention service. This resulted in the installation of new equipment for the...

This practical guide pays particular attention to the ergonomic and psychosocial risks to which workers of this trade are deemed to be particularly exposed, all of which from a necessary gender standpoint, in view of the considerable feminisation of many of the professional tasks undertaken in this...

In Finistère, near Brest, Iroise Fourgons Aménagés modifies commercial vehicles to make them into real mobile micro-housing units. Accompanied by Carsat Bretagne and the occupational health service in the design of new premises, the SME has completely changed the working conditions of its employees...

This is a rather large E.Leclerc drive-through store with three pick-up points around Laval. The owners of the site and its manager have made the prevention of occupational hazards a central part of their development. A strategy that is bearing fruit. Thus, unlike many classic drives, the aisles are...

Located in Haute-Saône, Conflandey Industries has been manufacturing steel wire for over a hundred years. The company, which uses processes that can be dangerous, is constantly improving the working conditions of its employees. Wire drawing, the art of reducing steel to wire of different diameters...