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...

Chrodis Plus Chronic diseases and employment Workbox includes 2 elements: a training toolkit and a toolkit for workplaces. Its practical resources support workplaces to: measure, evaluate and strengthen the inclusiveness of workplaces and the work ability of employees with chronic conditions; foster...

Brochure about prevention of work-related musculoskeletal overloads. The brochure contains both information on MSDs in general, as well as practical information in what companies and employees could do to prevent them .

This guide is primarily aimed at enterprises that employ workers with chronic illnesses. It is intented to support and assist them with the aim to retain / keeping them at the workplace. It also includes information about reintegration of staff returning after a longer period of absence.

This informative guide provides practical advice to employers, occupational safety specialists on how to arrange lifting and handling work for employees in order to avoid shifting weights with physical force. It includes technical measures and equipment.

This brochure includes special checklists for investigating work safety issues and ergonomics. The aim is to serve as a tool for those who deal with occupational safety and ergonomics, and especially for safety engineers, in order to better assess occupational risk. Some of the tools presented were...

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...