Type Case study
Norja
LanguageEnglish
ProviderEU OSHA
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...
Type Guides & Tools
EU
LanguageEnglish
ProviderEU OSHA
This article covers any problem that affects muscles, bones or joints and impacts on a person’s ability to work. It may be caused or aggravated by work and then is often called a ‘work-related musculoskeletal disorder (work-related MSD)’.
Type Guides & Tools
Saksa
LanguageGerman
ProviderGerman League for Rheumatism
In Germany, 20 million people suffer from over 100 different forms of rheumatism, such as chronic back pain, fibromyalgia and arthrosis or inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis or ankylosing spondylitis. Finding — and keeping — a job that works within the limitations imposed by...
Type Guides & Tools
Canada
LanguageFrench
ProviderInstitut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST)
This checklist is a synthesis of the pragmatic recommendations arising from the research report R-942 by Marie-José Durand et al. published in 2016. It is intended to facilitate dialogue between the various actors or stakeholders involved in the return to work, including: health professionals...
Type Guides & Tools
EU
LanguageEnglish
ProviderThe European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR)
EULAR represents people with arthritis/rheumatism, health professionals and scientific societies of rheumatology in the EU. EULAR's aims are to reduce the burden of rheumatic diseases on the individual and society and to improve the treatment, prevention and rehabilitation of musculoskeletal...