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...

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...

Films with pause exercises to do during the working day to prevent disorders of the muscular system. There are short films for individual exercises, that can be done when sitting or standing.

This website gives advice on how to organize your office space and provides a movie on how to adjust your office work place.

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...

To prevent muscle strain caused by continuous sitting, you should regularly increase and exercise. But what exercises should be done? The answer lies in a new video clip from the Labor Inspectorate about exercises for people who work while sitting.

This website gives advice for the prevention of muscle and skeleton pain from working in laboratories. Several tasks, such as pipetting and microscopy are addressed in this information. The website also gives some useful links to other sources of information that could be useful in preventing...