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 website provides all sort of information on MSDs, including legislation, best practices, tools and risk assessment.

This website contains information about avoiding harmful load on the lower back. It contains a slideshow on loads on the lower back and several images that display what to aim for and what to avoid when using the lower back.

This guide presents the risks factors related to the manual handling of loads, the biomechanical principles of safety and economy of effort, and how to use the body.

This guideline was developed as a professional recommendation how to avoid long- term sitting at the workplace and thereby reduce the negative impact of the risks arising from long-term sitting. This guideline has the purpose of recognizing risks at workplaces where long-term sitting can be avoided.

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

This fact sheet highlights the key findings of the EU-OSHA's prevention report, which focuses on the prevention of MSDs and the development and progress made in this area since the previous MSDs campaign in 2000. The report consists of two parts: a state-of-the-art review of the research literature...