Practical tools and guidance on musculoskeletal disorders

To make it easy for workplaces to assess and manage MSD risks, our easy-to-use database includes a variety of practical tools and guidance materials developed at EU and national levels.

The resources include case studies and visual materials and cover a wide range of sectors, hazard types and prevention measures. Some are specifically aimed at certain actors, for example employers, workers or managers, and some at managing MSDs among specific groups of workers. The resources can be filtered by any of these or by a variety of other categories, so it couldn’t be easier to find exactly what you are looking for.

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Visual resources Guides & Tools Latvia Latvian
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Institute for Safety, Environment and Health
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Darba drošības un vides veselības institūts

This guide provides practical advice and examples on the correct positions for workers who handle loads and the correct way to maintain a good posture. It also provides examples of stretching exercises in seated work.

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EU OSHA
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EU OSHA

This checklist includes questions on working postures of the back and neck, arms and hands, legs during sitting and standing tasks. It also gives examples of the type of action at a technical, organisational and individual level that can be put in place to prevent or reduce the risks caused by...

Visual resources Latvia Latvian
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Health Resort / Rehalibitation Centre 'Jaunķemeri'
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Jaunķemeri

Poster showing exercises to practice at the office.

Guides & Tools Latvia Latvian
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Institute for Safety, Environment and Health
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Darba drošības un vides veselības institūts

This guide summarizes the most important requirements and recommendations for safe and healthy computer work and provide both good and bad example of postures.

Guides & Tools Latvia Latvian
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Institute for Safety, Environment and Health
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Institute for Safety, Environment and Health

This informative guide provides practical advice to employers, occupational safety specialists on how to arrange lifting and handling work for employees in order to avoid shifting weights with physical force. It includes technical measures and equipment.

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EU OSHA
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EU OSHA

This fact sheet highlights the key findings of the EU-OSHA's prevention report, which focuses on the prevention of MSDs and the development and progress made in this area since the previous MSDs campaign in 2000. The report consists of two parts: a state-of-the-art review of the research literature...

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EU OSHA
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EU OSHA

This checklist concerns hazards for injury or development of disorders to the lower limb and is targeted at people engaged in workplace hazard identification. In addition, this checklist offers examples of preventive measures that can help to reduce LLDs risks.