Movement and physical awareness are central components of school health promotion and prevention. Physical activity has a high impact on both physical and mental health. Today, children are confronted with a much more sedentary living environment than before therefore, more movement needs to be...

Disability Confident is creating a movement of change, encouraging employers to think differently about disability and take action to improve how they recruit, retain and develop disabled people. Being Disability Confident is a unique opportunity to lead the way in your community, and you might just...

Workplace adjustments allow disabled people to have the same access to the workplace as their non-disabled colleagues. The REHADAT portal provides Good Practice examples for people with disabilities. More than 450 Good Practice examples show what employers can do to remove barriers to work for...

The German Federal Association for the Support of Posture and Mobilisation (BAG) is a non-profit association. BAG promotes and supports day care centers, schools and youth associations to create adventure playgrounds for children to stimulate their physical activity. The brochure "Simply moving"...

In supermarkets and shopping malls, workers have to push a number of shopping trolleys back to the trolley parking place. Pushing trolleys is a physically demanding work that may put workers at risk of muskuloskeletal dieseases. EDEKA in Minden (Germany) developped a pushing aid for trolleys using...

The objective of the "Ergo-Guide concept" was to qualify workers in the field of ergonomics so that they can identify ergonomic problems (e.g. awkward posture and movement) at the workplaces, systematically analyse the ergonomic hazards and help to find solutions to prevent MSDs. More than 250...