Type Guides & Tools
Australia
LanguageEnglish
ProviderBe Upstanding
This short blog provides advice on active strategies to prioritise healthy activity that can fit into your work at home schedule. This can be beneficial even if you participate in a regular physical activity. The tips are divided into 3 areas: Setting up a proper work environment; taking active...
Type Case study
Id-Danimarka
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
Australia
LanguageEnglish
ProviderBe Upstanding
This blog provides ideas for adopting different positions for working at home, other than standard sitting on a chair at a desk. The ideas for sitting in different postures on the floor or exercising while standing may not suit everybody, but it shows how the opportunity of working at home can be...
Type Guides & Tools
Australia
LanguageEnglish
ProviderBe Upstanding
This toolkit is a collection of information, guidance materials and templates that can help workplaces develop and apply an organisational strategy to reduce prolonged sitting in the workplace. Prolonged sitting poses significant risks to the health of workers and to the organisations they work for...
Type Guides & Tools
Australia
LanguageEnglish
ProviderWorksafe Australia
This reports examines the most recent evidence from Australia and overseas on sedentary work, its likely consequences and the potential control options.
Type Guides & Tools
Australia
LanguageEnglish
ProviderWorksafe Australia
This report provides a detailed examination of the causes, impacts and prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs). It outlines current knowledge of WMSD hazards and risk factors, statistics on incidence and impact, and a review of WMSD interventions in Australia and...
Type Guides & Tools
Id-Danimarka
LanguageDanish
ProviderIndustry community for the working environment for welfare and public administration
This guide is about sustainable ergonomic work routines in day-care centres. It contains information on how ergonomics and pedagogical professionalism go hand in hand and points to specific bad habits and how to break them .