Type Visual resources, Guides & Tools
Canada
LanguageFrench
ProviderInstitut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST)
The purpose of this document is to promote reflection, present strategies facilitating the application, by nursing staff, of practices for preventing musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), and propose ways of supporting the implementation of these strategies. The document is presented in the form of...
Type Visual resources
Belgium
LanguageFrench
ProviderFederal Public Service Employment, Labor and Social Dialogue
This film, in French, is largely language-free and self-explanatory. It shows real tasks carried out by a home helper (e.g. cleaning, food preparation, caring for the client. It shows poor hazardous practices and practical solutions, e.g. to improve working heights and to make it easier to move...
Type Visual resources
Dánia
LanguageDanish
ProviderThe Danish Working environment Authority
This short video demonstrates how simple measures, such as adjusting the chair at the correct height within the hairdressers business, MSDs can be avoided.
Type Visual resources, Case study
Írország
LanguageEnglish
ProviderHealth and safety autority
This video of a risk assesment case study shows carers attempting to lift a patient who has fallen in a hospital bathroom. It points out the risks and gives a solution for the problems showed.
Type Visual resources, Case study
Írország
LanguageEnglish
ProviderHealth and safety autority
This video of a risk assessment case study shows carers lifting a bed-bound patient in order to change a mattress. It points out the risks and gives a solution for the problems showed.
Type Visual resources, Case study
Írország
LanguageEnglish
ProviderHealth and safety autority
This video of a risk assessment case study shows a patient wearing long leg plaster is moved from bed tot wheelchair. It points out the risks and gives a solution for the problems showed.
Type Guides & Tools
Franciaország
LanguageFrench
ProviderINRS
This series of ten short films is aimed at professionals in the field of care and assistance, both at home and in institutions. The main message concerns the elimination of the handling of loads in people's "handlings" by integrating technical aids (transfer aids) into the care activity: helping a...