This campaign infographic provides information about sedentary jobs and what can be done by employers and workers to address the risks associated with lack of movement and lack of physical activity at work.

This article shows how important it is to adopt a "life-course" approach for studying musculoskeletal conditions and musculoskeletal health. This approach gives potential for a better understanding of how and why musculoskeletal conditions occur over the life course and how musculoskeletal health...

This factsheets explain how continuous standing or sitting while working is a common source of discomfort and fatigue. Frequent changes of body positions, including alternating between sitting and standing, helps to avoid fatigue.

This article presents information about a type of sedentary behaviour: prolonged static sitting. It presents the magnitude of the problem, the health effects, workers at risks and examples of interventions.

This articles presents the origin of most MSDs. it lies in a mismatch between the external load and the capacity of the human body to resist biomechanical and physiological strain. Excessive forces can trigger different pathophysiological processes depending on the tissues affected. It is the...

This article presents one of the categories of work-related risk factors for MSDs: the psychosocial risks factors. They include psychosocial work characteristics, such as work demands, job control and social support at work.

Despite numerous initiatives aimed at preventing work-related MSDs, their prevalence remains high across the EU. This report summarises the findings of a large-scale project aimed at exploring the reasons for this and identifying shortcomings both at policy level and in implementing effective...