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 report presents a conceptual framework to explain work-related risk factors for MSDs and mental wellbeing. It analyses data from the latest EWCS and ESENER to explore how job characteristics of individual workers (such as biomechanical and psychosocial factors) and company-level occupational...

This infosheet provides an overview of body and hazard mapping techniques and highlights their value in identifying and preventing work-related MSDs. It lists the resources you need to run a hazard or body mapping session in your own workplace and provides step-by-step guidance.

The UK legislative framework addressing MSDs has been in place for nearly 40 years, and the policy approach is to inform and enable employers, encouraging them to address risks. The strategy under discussion is the latest in a series of initiatives stretching back 20 years. MSDs are addressed under...

These resources are to enable organisations to use Napo films to raise awareness about health and safety topics (including MSDs) within groups of their own staff and supply chains. The resources will enable organisations to deliver advice on health and safety topics, and will help generate...

Exercise is one of the best things you can do to improve your symptoms of arthritis. This website provides exercises to manage pain in different areas and organs of your body. The exercises are described and illustrated.

ESCAPE-pain is a rehabilitation programme for people with chronic joint pain. It helps people understand their condition, teaches them simple things they can help themselves with, and takes them through a progressive exercise programme so they learn how to cope with pain better. ESCAPE-pain offers...