Type Case study
Ausztria
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, Ausztria, Dánia, Finnország, Franciaország, Németország, Magyarország, Olaszország, Hollandia, Spanyolország, Svédország
LanguageEnglish
ProviderEU OSHA
This synthesis report is part of a much larger project intended to support policy-makers at EU and national levels by providing an accurate picture of the prevalence and costs of MSDs across Europe, pulling together existing data from a number of relevant and reliable official statistical sources...
Type Guides & Tools
Egyesült Királyság
LanguageEnglish
ProviderLiberty Mutual Group
Liberty Mutual has updated the manual material handling tables originally published by Snook in 1978, and by Snook and Ciriello in 1991. The new “Liberty Mutual Manual Materials Handling Tables” provide both the male and female population percentages capable of performing manual material handling...
Type Case study
Ausztria
LanguageEnglish
ProviderApplied Ergonomics
The aim of this paper is to provide a practical guidance for practitioners and researchers on how to assess occupational sedentary behavior. It discusses the use of different wearables and how to use them in gaining insights in sedentary behaviour.
Type Guides & Tools
Egyesült Királyság
LanguageEnglish
ProviderHealth and Safety Executive (HSE)
The Manual Handling Assessment Charts (MAC) is a tool aimed at employers, health and safety managers and safety representatives and is used by health and safety inspectors. The tool will help you assess the most common risk factors in lifting (and lowering), carrying and team handling operations...
Type Guides & Tools
Egyesült Királyság
LanguageEnglish
ProviderHealth and Safety Executive (HSE)
The assessment of repetitive tasks (ART) tool is designed to help you risk assess tasks that require repetitive moving of the upper limbs (arms and hands). It helps you to assess some of the common risk factors in repetitive work that contribute to the development of upper limb disorders (ULDs)...
Type Guides & Tools
Egyesült Királyság
LanguageEnglish
ProviderThe Robens Centre for Health Ergonomics
QEC has been designed to: assess the changes in exposure to musculoskeletal risk factors of the back, shoulders and arms, hands and wrists, and neck before and after an ergonomic intervention involve the practitioner (i.e. the observer) who conducts the assessment, and the worker who has direct...
