This factsheet provides information about the health problems, health hazards related to working in a standind positions. It also provides recommendations for improving workplace design and how to reduce the effects of working in this posture.

This factsheets explain how continuous standing or sitting while working is a common source of discomfort and fatigue. Frequent changes of body positions, including alternating between sitting and standing, helps to avoid fatigue.

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...

Because the health of its employees is at the centre of its actions, Sateco recommends a series of safety gestures and postures to be put into practice on a daily basis to avoid MSDs (musculoskeletal disorders). This preventive approach involves good practices to be adopted for all types of tasks...

In this case study, SNV Volabraye, a türkiye slaughtering and cutting company, has integrated prevention into the design of its new manual cutting line. Indeed, following its integration into the MSDs Pros program of the Occupational Risk Health Insurance, the SNV site in Volabraye has identified...

If you’re confused by seemingly duelling headlines about the negative health effects of prolonged sitting and prolonged standing, this video may help clear things up. In this video, scientists give their opinion on the risks of both sitting and standing.

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 fact...