This checklist includes questions on working postures of the back and neck, arms and hands, legs during sitting and standing tasks. It also gives examples of the type of action at a technical, organisational and individual level that can be put in place to prevent or reduce the risks caused by...

This guide summarizes the most important requirements and recommendations for safe and healthy computer work and provide both good and bad example of postures.

This informative guide provides practical advice to employers, occupational safety specialists on how to arrange lifting and handling work for employees in order to avoid shifting weights with physical force. It includes technical measures and equipment.

The purpose of this brochure is to help employers to do a risk assessment on the manual handling of loads.

Exposure to vibrations may affect human beings in a variety of ways.The harmful effects of vibrating tools or machines have long since been known but are still frequently underestimated. This Guide for Risk Assessment is about hazards arising from whole-body and hand-arm vibrations. It is meant to...

This brochure includes special checklists for investigating work safety issues and ergonomics. The aim is to serve as a tool for those who deal with occupational safety and ergonomics, and especially for safety engineers, in order to better assess occupational risk. Some of the tools presented were...

In this manual, an introduction to ergonomics is introduced, some musculoskeletal disorders and their causes are described, as well as the basic ergonomic design principles of a job. Its goal is to help workers recognize and, on the other hand, cope with the problems arising from the bad design of...