This case study highlights Germany’s holistic approach to tackling musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), facilitated by a comprehensive legal framework. MSDs are the most common cause of absence from work in Germany, and preventing them is one of the priorities of the Joint German Occupational Safety...

This series of short informative case studies looks at a range of policy level initiatives across Europe and beyond aiming to prevent and manage work-related MSDs. The studies focus on achievements, factors contributing to their success and challenges encountered, and transferability to other...

This guideline was developed as a professional recommendation how to avoid long- term sitting at the workplace and thereby reduce the negative impact of the risks arising from long-term sitting. This guideline has the purpose of recognizing risks at workplaces where long-term sitting can be avoided.

Leaflet giving advice on how to handle loads. It gives scores for different ways on how to handle loads, showing the reader the best and the worst ways to handle loads.

Booklet about how workers in the kindergarten could work healthy. This booklet gives information about the dangers in kindergarten as well as practical information on how to avoid MSDs

The work of rescue service and fire brigades is characterised by lifting and carrying heavy loads, time pressure, narrow transport routes and awkward postures. This leads to high loads on the musculoskeletal system, especially the back. Lifting and carrying heavy loads - especially those with...

People are meant to move! Without movement not only does the cardiovascular system suffers, but also and in particular the muscula skeletal system. Musculoskeletal conditions are the leading contributor to disability worldwide, with low back pain being the single leading cause of disability. This...