The aim of this article is to provide a guide for the selection of easy-to-use, usable and research-based assessment tools for the assessment of risk for work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) during the SLIC Campaign 2022 ‘Healthy Workplaces Lighten the load’.

This brochure is about what employers and employees are responsible for preventing injuries due to incorrect or inappropriate loads. It includes a checklist for helping identify risks.

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 brochure is about repetitive work: work where similar movements are repeated over and over. This can have negative health effects and should therefore be avoided. Here you will find advice on measures to reduce the risks.

This webpage presents general and practical information in order to prevent MSDs in different sectors/jobs. It focuses for example on computer work, working in hospitals and care and cleaning.

This video contains a summary review of the research-based knowledge of what physical variation is, what types of measures one can think of in working life to increase (or change) the content of variation in a job, and what evidence exists for different types of action Indeed, increased variation (e...

The first part of this video concerns MSDs in a fish factory. By looking at the organisational differences in men's and women's tasks it shows how this leads to gender differences in the ill health suffered by the men and women. It is an animation film with voiceover. Available in English and...