Type Guides & Tools
Canada
LanguageEnglish
ProviderCanadian Centre for Occupational Safety and Health (CCOHS)
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.
Type Guides & Tools
Canada
LanguageEnglish
ProviderCanadian Centre for Occupational Safety and Health (CCOHS)
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.
Type Guides & Tools
Spagna
LanguageSpanish
ProviderINSST
This tool/app aims to provide assistance in identifying risks associated with physical load, in particular related to handling of loads, repetitive work and static postures.
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, Guides & Tools
Spagna
LanguageSpanish
ProviderFremap
This publication refers only to the MSDs of the upper limbs. It details the main risk of injuries of the upper limbs, the main risk factors and the corresponding preventive measures , with special emphasis on the design and redesign of workplaces. It includes lots of drawings to be easy to...
Type Visual resources, Guides & Tools
Canada
LanguageEnglish
ProviderInstitute for work & health
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.
Type Guides & Tools
Canada
LanguageEnglish, French
ProviderInstitut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST)
This document summarizes the key results of a major study of the risks of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) in emergency medical technician-paramedics (EMT-Ps) with the intent of: making stakeholders aware of the risks of MSDs associated with the profession of EMT-P and encouraging the development...