Type Case study
Canada
LanguageEnglish
ProviderEU OSHA
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...
Type Guides & Tools
Canada
LanguageEnglish
ProviderWorkplace Safety & Prevention Services (WSPS)
This info sheet gives some practical information on hazard involved with manual handling, and how to control these hazards. Manual material handling work is carried out in most workplaces. Musculoskeletal injuries are a common hazard for workers who perform this type of work.
Type Case study
Paesi Bassi
LanguageEnglish
ProviderEU OSHA
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...
Type Case study
Paesi Bassi
LanguageEnglish
ProviderEU OSHA
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...
Type Guides & Tools
EU, Austria, Danimarca, Finlandia, Francia, Germania, Ungheria, Italia, Paesi Bassi, Spagna, Svezia
LanguageEnglish
ProviderEU OSHA
This synthesis report is part of a much larger project intended to support policy-makers at EU and national levels by providing an accurate picture of the prevalence and costs of MSDs across Europe, pulling together existing data from a number of relevant and reliable official statistical sources...
Type Guides & Tools
Paesi Bassi
LanguageDutch
ProviderVolandis
Workers in the construction industry perform physically demanding work. The physical strain is often high. This can lead to complaints to the neck, shoulder and back, and thus even to sickness absence and disability. Almost half of the absenteeism in the construction industry is caused by these...
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...