Type Guides & Tools
EU
LanguageEnglish
ProviderEU OSHA
The report highlights the main issues and aims to provide a well-founded evidence base, helping policy makers, actors at enterprise and sector level, as well as researchers and those who record, prevent and compensate occupational diseases in the European Union to set the agenda for the next years.
Type Guides & Tools
Ruotsi
LanguageEnglish, Swedish
ProviderSwedish Work Environment Authority
This document presents information on how to assess the risks of pushing and pulling loads yourself. It includes a manual and a template to be filled in.
Type Guides & Tools
Unkari
LanguageHungarian
ProviderHungarian trade union of chemical, energy and related professions
This website provides a brief summary on the topic of MSDs and some tips for its prevention.
Type Guides & Tools
Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta
LanguageEnglish
ProviderLiberty Mutual Group
Liberty Mutual has updated the manual material handling tables originally published by Snook in 1978, and by Snook and Ciriello in 1991. The new “Liberty Mutual Manual Materials Handling Tables” provide both the male and female population percentages capable of performing manual material handling...
Type Guides & Tools
Saksa
LanguageGerman
ProviderProfessional association for wood and metal
This booklet provides information on risk assessment and prevention for occupational health and safety experts and works councils in woodwork and metalwork. It contains information about risk assessments in both the factory floor as well as the risks associated with working in the office.
Type Visual resources, Guides & Tools
USA
LanguageEnglish
ProviderTriMedia Environmental & Engineering Firm
This website provides information (and a short film) about several interventions in the healthcare industry. Healthcare workers make diagnoses and prognoses all day long, but it isn’t always easy for them to recognize signs and symptoms of injury in themselves. Although hospitals and other...
Type Guides & Tools
Belgia
LanguageFrench, Dutch
ProviderFederal Public Service Employment, Labor and Social Dialogue
This general brochure for the prevention of musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) has been developed to meet the need for a comprehensive information tool on the risk of MSDs. This guide has three main objectives: to know how the musculoskeletal system works, to understand how it can deteriorate and to...