Type Guides & Tools
Australia
LanguageEnglish
ProviderBe Upstanding
This blog provides ideas for adopting different positions for working at home, other than standard sitting on a chair at a desk. The ideas for sitting in different postures on the floor or exercising while standing may not suit everybody, but it shows how the opportunity of working at home can be...
Type Guides & Tools
Australia
LanguageEnglish
ProviderOHS Reps Union
This web section provides guidance to employers of workers who work remotely and advice to workers to maintain “mental health”.
Type Guides & Tools
Australia
LanguageEnglish
ProviderBe Upstanding
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...
Type Guides & Tools
Australia
LanguageEnglish
ProviderOHS reps
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.
Type Case study
Puola
LanguageEnglish
ProviderEU OSHA
ARTEX is a small sewing plant with 14 female employees working five-day single shifts. Repetitive tasks, performed seated, increase the risk of MSDs. In addition to legally-required medical checks, assessment of individual workstations led to improvements in work organisation, layout and equipment...