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...

ART is a risk assessment tool. This tool is most suited for tasks that: involve actions of the upper limbs; repeat every few minutes, or even more frequently; and occur for at least 1–2 hours per day or shift. ART tool is made up of three sections: the assessment guide; the risk factors and the...

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.

Practical guide how to implement physical activity in workplaces : Short description what is physical activity in workplaces; why it is so important; 4 stages of physical activity implementing in workplaces; practical examples

Designed as an expert recommendation on risk management in workplaces where manual workload cannot be avoided when performing work tasks, this guideline has been developed to help meet the legislative provisions in this area. This guideline provides a new SMART (Scoring Method for Assessment of...

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

This project was initiated with the intention of helping nursery growers, vegetable, berry and dairy farmers to tackle these and other occupational safety and health problems and to improve profits.