This leaflet is intended to help assess the risks of MSDs and thus make it possible to prevent them.

This article gives a holistic approach to tackling MSDs in teachers and teaching assistants. By identifying risk factors and incorporating health and wellbeing as an integrated, collaborative approach, focused on health promotion and a culture of prevention, improvements can be made to...

This articles presents MSDs as the leading cause of work-related health problems in the healthcare sector. The effects for staff, organisations and society include sickness absence, injuries and disability, increased costs, higher employee turnover, lower productivity and staff leaving the...

This articles presents the several risk factors that make manual handling of loads hazardous and increase the risk of injury.

This article presents the primary cause for MSDs in nursing: patient handling tasks such as lifting, transferring, and repositioning of patients

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 technical note on prevention aims to summarise the Dotte method, which is designed to facilitate the mobilisation of patients and dependent persons or those with limited mobility, thus minimising MSDs.