This book offers a multi-faceted orientation in the prerequisites for healthy and effective human work. It is intended to help budding system designers and production engineers tackle these design challenges holistically.

This guide is a complete approach on how user can determine whether a lifting situation is exceeding healthy limits and when not. It is very detailed and should be used by a professional user.

This document provides instructions associated with the Workplace Ergonomic Risk Assessment (WERA) method, and observational tool developed to provide a method of screening the working task quickly for exposure physical risk factor associated with MSDs.

The Workplace Ergonomic Risk Assessment (WERA) method is an observational tool that covers an extensive range of physical risk factors including posture, repetition, forceful, vibration, contact stress and task duration: Is also involves the five main body regions to be assessed (shoulder, wrists...

The Lighten the Load campaign featured the Good Practice Awards, which recognise organisations that have made outstanding and innovative contributions to tackling MSDs. The awards promote and encourage practical solutions in workplaces and share this good practice around Europe. This publication...

This guide provides useful information and good practices on manual handling in the field of companies operating in the retail sector.

In this brochure it is explained what the ideal conditions in the workplace are, how to make sure a workplace fits the task. This brochure also gives detailed information about how to use several tools during work.