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- FR-SUMER - Trends and issues in working conditions 1994-2010
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First results of the SUMER survey were just published, with an analysis of the trends between 1994 and 2010, covering three rounds of surveys.
Some issues highlighted:
Organisational and psychosocial work factors: The reduction in autonomy together with increasing pace constraints and increasing mental load, leads to a considerably higher proportion of workers reporting to be on “job strain”. - Participative Ergonomic Blueprint
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Are you interested in preventing musculoskeletal disorders in workers? Then consider using a participatory ergonomic (PE) program. Evidence shows that PE programs, which involve workers in building safer workplaces, can help prevent MSDs. The PE Blueprint provides step-by-step guidance on how to set up a PE program.
- Reducing MSD hazards in the workplace: A guide to successful participatory ergonomics programs
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In participatory ergonomics (PE) programs, workers, supervisors and other workplace parties jointly identify and address work-related hazards. PE can help reduce low-back injuries and other musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), resulting in fewer workers’ compensation claims and lost days from work. This booklet, based on a systematic review by IWH researchers, outlines six key steps that have been shown to contribute to the success of a PE program.
- US- Home healthcare workers – updated guidance documents
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Home healthcare workers can be vulnerable as they face an unprotected and unpredictable environment each time they enter a client's community and home.
- Scientific evaluation of aluminium and aluminium compounds
-
The Nordic Expert Group (NEG) has recently published an evaluation on aluminium. The document is a joint production of the Nordic Expert Group for Criteria Documentation of Health Risks from Chemicals (NEG) and the Dutch Expert Committee on Occupational Safety (DECOS). It has been published separately by DECOS and NEG and the NEG version, hereby announced, has been adapted to the requirements of NEG.
- DK- The Danish national return-to-work (RTW) program
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The Danish national return-to-work (RTW) program aims to improve the management of municipal sickness benefit in Denmark. A study is currently ongoing to evaluate the RTW program. The program includes 21 municipalities with about 19 500 working-age adults on long-term sickness absence, regardless of reason for sickness absence or employment status.
- IE - Guidance on the Management of Manual Handling in Healthcare
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This guide provides practical information on managing the risk of injury from manual handling activities in the healthcare sector.
- CAN-Intervention study to reduce musculoskeletal disorders and psychological health problems in 911 emergency call centre
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A multidisciplinary study led to better identification of the aspects of the mental load related to MSDs and the mental health problems of 9-1-1 emergency call centre dispatchers, a profession that has not been extensively studied by researchers up to now.
- BE, CAN- Improving working conditions in home care services
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A guide to good organizational practices aimed at improving the quality of home care and home support services (HCS) jobs has just been published by the Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST). Developed by members of two research teams, the IRSST in Québec and the Service de psychologie du travail of the Université de Mons in Belgium, this project was funded by the 5th permanent joint board on cooperation between Québec – Wallonia-Brussels.
- Preventing Work-related Injuries: Computers
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Most jobs these days, especially those done by women, use some kind of computer. Computers are now in office work, retail and service jobs, accounting work, graphic design, data processing and on many assembly lines. Portable computers also are more common “on the road” or at an office.
This article explains:
- Kvinnors hälsa och återgång i arbete - Womens health and return to work
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Rygg- och nackbesvär är den vanligaste orsaken till långvariga sjukskrivningar och förtidspensioneringar I Sverige och många andra länder. Riksförsäkringsverket deltar tillsammans med Yrkesortopediska enheten på Sahlgrenska Universitetssjukhuset vid Göteborgs universitet och fem försäkringskassor i ett internationellt projekt, Work Incapacity and Reintegration. Projektet syftar till att undersöka hur fler sjukskrivna med besvär i ländrygg kan återföras i arbete genom medicinska och arbetslivsinriktade insatser. I det svenska projektet ingår även sjukskrivna med nackbesvär. I denna rapport, som är den sjunde i det svenska projektet , redovisas hur arbetsgivarens insatser påverkar möjligheten för sjukskrivna kvinnor med besvär från rygg och nacke att återgå i arbete. Rapporten belyser också hur dessa kvinnor upplever sin hälsa och sin psykosociala arbetsmiljö.
This report is about back and neck problems by working women in Sweden. It reports on sick leave and rehabilitation.
- NL- Standing, kneeling and squatting at work – health-based limit values
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In the present report, at the request of the Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, the Health Council of the Netherlands has investigated whether at the present time there are any new scientific insights concerning health-based or safety-based limit values for work performed while standing, kneeling or squatting.
- Health and safety in hairdressing. An evaluation of health and safety management practices in the Hairdressing industry
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Hairdressing poses significant risks of musculoskeletal disorders and dermatitis for Hairdressers. Hairdressers suffering musculoskeletal discomfort, pain or injury means decreased job performance, lower productivity, increased time off work and possible early retirement from the hairdressing profession.
The causes of this harm to workers in the Industry are largely known. Ways to prevent this harm exist but are not so well known. Hairdressers can protect themselves from harm. There is no reason why any new entrant to the Industry should have to leave the profession because of work related muscle, joint or tendon discomfort or harm.
- Institute of Occupational Safety & Health - IOSH
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The Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) is a research institute under the jurisdiction of the Council of Labor Affairs, Executive Yuan. It is tasked with ensuring occupational safety, and its major missions include the study and analysis, using the latest science and technology, of various risk factors in the working environment that may result in occupational injuries, and the development of solutions.
IOSH is dedicated to the research, analysis, and improvement of all the factors and issues in the working environment that could potentially do harm to labor safety and health. In addition to the traditional issue of occupational safety, we are also faced with new challenges such as potential risks posed by large high-speed and high-energy equipment, unknown hazards of new technologies and materials, and dangers arising from the increased physiological and psychological burdens of workers due to the lack of well-organized plans for the interaction of humans, machinery, and the environment in the workplace.
Among the others, IOSH also provides good practice information on preventation of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs)
- ADJUSTMENT OF METERING PLACES FOR METERING OF VIBRATIONS OF ROTATING MACHINES FOR SECURING SAFE WORK PERFORMANCE
- Basic mission of Eurostream, a.s. is to transport natural gas in Slovakia and through Slovakia to the European markets. The purpose of the work was to propose such a system of execution of vibrations within the preventive maintenance of machines which would increase the safety of personnel ...
- UK - Health and safety in the air transport industry
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The Webpage gives access to a number of resources related to occupational safety and health
- Emergency services: occupational safety and health risks
- The report shows that emergency workers have a high risk of suffering fatal accidents, injuries and other occupational diseases. Past disasters demonstrate that both communities and companies are often not fully prepared for major accidents and catastrophes. Better protection for emergency workers against occupational hazards should be given high priority, as current environmental, economic, and political developments suggest an increase in the severity and frequency of future disasters.
- INT - Improved Safety for Truck Drivers: Designing Safer Cabs Based on Driver Body Dimensions
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Approximately 1.5 million U.S. workers were employed as drivers of heavy trucks and tractor-trailers in 2009. Truck drivers spend long hours behind the wheel, working an average of 41.5 hours per week. Therefore, a well-designed truck cab can make a significant difference in the working conditions for a truck driver.
- Summary - New risks and trends in the safety and health of women at work
- In 2009 and 2010, the Agency commissioned an update to its previous research on gender issues at work , which found that inequality both inside and outside the workplace can have an effect on the health and safety of women at work. This summary provides a policy perspective and is meant to contribute to the task outlined by the European strategy on health and safety at work for EU-OSHA’s European Risk Observatory, “examining the specific challenges in terms of health and safety posed by the more extensive integration of women in the labour market”. It provides a statistical overview of the trends in employment and working conditions, hazard exposure and work-related accidents and health problems for women at work. It explores selected issues (combined exposures, occupational cancer, access to rehabilitation, women and informal work, and “emerging” female professions such as home care and domestic work). The research highlights the type of work carried out by women, issues faced by younger and older women, the growth of the service sector, violence and harassment, and increasingly diversified working time patterns as major risk factors.
- Napo in … Safe moves
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Our famous cartoon character Napo shows that workplace transport must be well organised to reduce risks and manage hazards properly. This requires planning and monitoring by senior managers, risk assessment and appropriate action by employees who should be trained. Scenes include site, people and vehicle safety, maintenance, visibility, reversing and loading.
Factsheet - Preventing vehicle transport accidents at the workplace (various languages)
E-fact - Preventing vehicle accidents in construction (English only)
Occupational Safety and Health of Road Transport Drivers (24 languages)
Also in this section
- FR-SUMER - Trends and issues in working conditions 1994-2010
-
First results of the SUMER survey were just published, with an analysis of the trends between 1994 and 2010, covering three rounds of surveys.
Some issues highlighted:
Organisational and psychosocial work factors: The reduction in autonomy together with increasing pace constraints and increasing mental load, leads to a considerably higher proportion of workers reporting to be on “job strain”. - Participative Ergonomic Blueprint
-
Are you interested in preventing musculoskeletal disorders in workers? Then consider using a participatory ergonomic (PE) program. Evidence shows that PE programs, which involve workers in building safer workplaces, can help prevent MSDs. The PE Blueprint provides step-by-step guidance on how to set up a PE program.
- Reducing MSD hazards in the workplace: A guide to successful participatory ergonomics programs
-
In participatory ergonomics (PE) programs, workers, supervisors and other workplace parties jointly identify and address work-related hazards. PE can help reduce low-back injuries and other musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), resulting in fewer workers’ compensation claims and lost days from work. This booklet, based on a systematic review by IWH researchers, outlines six key steps that have been shown to contribute to the success of a PE program.
- US- Home healthcare workers – updated guidance documents
-
Home healthcare workers can be vulnerable as they face an unprotected and unpredictable environment each time they enter a client's community and home.
- Scientific evaluation of aluminium and aluminium compounds
-
The Nordic Expert Group (NEG) has recently published an evaluation on aluminium. The document is a joint production of the Nordic Expert Group for Criteria Documentation of Health Risks from Chemicals (NEG) and the Dutch Expert Committee on Occupational Safety (DECOS). It has been published separately by DECOS and NEG and the NEG version, hereby announced, has been adapted to the requirements of NEG.
- DK- The Danish national return-to-work (RTW) program
-
The Danish national return-to-work (RTW) program aims to improve the management of municipal sickness benefit in Denmark. A study is currently ongoing to evaluate the RTW program. The program includes 21 municipalities with about 19 500 working-age adults on long-term sickness absence, regardless of reason for sickness absence or employment status.
- IE - Guidance on the Management of Manual Handling in Healthcare
-
This guide provides practical information on managing the risk of injury from manual handling activities in the healthcare sector.
- CAN-Intervention study to reduce musculoskeletal disorders and psychological health problems in 911 emergency call centre
-
A multidisciplinary study led to better identification of the aspects of the mental load related to MSDs and the mental health problems of 9-1-1 emergency call centre dispatchers, a profession that has not been extensively studied by researchers up to now.
- BE, CAN- Improving working conditions in home care services
-
A guide to good organizational practices aimed at improving the quality of home care and home support services (HCS) jobs has just been published by the Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST). Developed by members of two research teams, the IRSST in Québec and the Service de psychologie du travail of the Université de Mons in Belgium, this project was funded by the 5th permanent joint board on cooperation between Québec – Wallonia-Brussels.
- Preventing Work-related Injuries: Computers
-
Most jobs these days, especially those done by women, use some kind of computer. Computers are now in office work, retail and service jobs, accounting work, graphic design, data processing and on many assembly lines. Portable computers also are more common “on the road” or at an office.
This article explains:
- Kvinnors hälsa och återgång i arbete - Womens health and return to work
-
Rygg- och nackbesvär är den vanligaste orsaken till långvariga sjukskrivningar och förtidspensioneringar I Sverige och många andra länder. Riksförsäkringsverket deltar tillsammans med Yrkesortopediska enheten på Sahlgrenska Universitetssjukhuset vid Göteborgs universitet och fem försäkringskassor i ett internationellt projekt, Work Incapacity and Reintegration. Projektet syftar till att undersöka hur fler sjukskrivna med besvär i ländrygg kan återföras i arbete genom medicinska och arbetslivsinriktade insatser. I det svenska projektet ingår även sjukskrivna med nackbesvär. I denna rapport, som är den sjunde i det svenska projektet , redovisas hur arbetsgivarens insatser påverkar möjligheten för sjukskrivna kvinnor med besvär från rygg och nacke att återgå i arbete. Rapporten belyser också hur dessa kvinnor upplever sin hälsa och sin psykosociala arbetsmiljö.
This report is about back and neck problems by working women in Sweden. It reports on sick leave and rehabilitation.
- NL- Standing, kneeling and squatting at work – health-based limit values
-
In the present report, at the request of the Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, the Health Council of the Netherlands has investigated whether at the present time there are any new scientific insights concerning health-based or safety-based limit values for work performed while standing, kneeling or squatting.
- Health and safety in hairdressing. An evaluation of health and safety management practices in the Hairdressing industry
-
Hairdressing poses significant risks of musculoskeletal disorders and dermatitis for Hairdressers. Hairdressers suffering musculoskeletal discomfort, pain or injury means decreased job performance, lower productivity, increased time off work and possible early retirement from the hairdressing profession.
The causes of this harm to workers in the Industry are largely known. Ways to prevent this harm exist but are not so well known. Hairdressers can protect themselves from harm. There is no reason why any new entrant to the Industry should have to leave the profession because of work related muscle, joint or tendon discomfort or harm.
- Institute of Occupational Safety & Health - IOSH
-
The Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) is a research institute under the jurisdiction of the Council of Labor Affairs, Executive Yuan. It is tasked with ensuring occupational safety, and its major missions include the study and analysis, using the latest science and technology, of various risk factors in the working environment that may result in occupational injuries, and the development of solutions.
IOSH is dedicated to the research, analysis, and improvement of all the factors and issues in the working environment that could potentially do harm to labor safety and health. In addition to the traditional issue of occupational safety, we are also faced with new challenges such as potential risks posed by large high-speed and high-energy equipment, unknown hazards of new technologies and materials, and dangers arising from the increased physiological and psychological burdens of workers due to the lack of well-organized plans for the interaction of humans, machinery, and the environment in the workplace.
Among the others, IOSH also provides good practice information on preventation of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs)
- ADJUSTMENT OF METERING PLACES FOR METERING OF VIBRATIONS OF ROTATING MACHINES FOR SECURING SAFE WORK PERFORMANCE
- Basic mission of Eurostream, a.s. is to transport natural gas in Slovakia and through Slovakia to the European markets. The purpose of the work was to propose such a system of execution of vibrations within the preventive maintenance of machines which would increase the safety of personnel ...
- UK - Health and safety in the air transport industry
-
The Webpage gives access to a number of resources related to occupational safety and health
- Emergency services: occupational safety and health risks
- The report shows that emergency workers have a high risk of suffering fatal accidents, injuries and other occupational diseases. Past disasters demonstrate that both communities and companies are often not fully prepared for major accidents and catastrophes. Better protection for emergency workers against occupational hazards should be given high priority, as current environmental, economic, and political developments suggest an increase in the severity and frequency of future disasters.
- INT - Improved Safety for Truck Drivers: Designing Safer Cabs Based on Driver Body Dimensions
-
Approximately 1.5 million U.S. workers were employed as drivers of heavy trucks and tractor-trailers in 2009. Truck drivers spend long hours behind the wheel, working an average of 41.5 hours per week. Therefore, a well-designed truck cab can make a significant difference in the working conditions for a truck driver.
- Summary - New risks and trends in the safety and health of women at work
- In 2009 and 2010, the Agency commissioned an update to its previous research on gender issues at work , which found that inequality both inside and outside the workplace can have an effect on the health and safety of women at work. This summary provides a policy perspective and is meant to contribute to the task outlined by the European strategy on health and safety at work for EU-OSHA’s European Risk Observatory, “examining the specific challenges in terms of health and safety posed by the more extensive integration of women in the labour market”. It provides a statistical overview of the trends in employment and working conditions, hazard exposure and work-related accidents and health problems for women at work. It explores selected issues (combined exposures, occupational cancer, access to rehabilitation, women and informal work, and “emerging” female professions such as home care and domestic work). The research highlights the type of work carried out by women, issues faced by younger and older women, the growth of the service sector, violence and harassment, and increasingly diversified working time patterns as major risk factors.
- Napo in … Safe moves
-
Our famous cartoon character Napo shows that workplace transport must be well organised to reduce risks and manage hazards properly. This requires planning and monitoring by senior managers, risk assessment and appropriate action by employees who should be trained. Scenes include site, people and vehicle safety, maintenance, visibility, reversing and loading.
Factsheet - Preventing vehicle transport accidents at the workplace (various languages)
E-fact - Preventing vehicle accidents in construction (English only)
Occupational Safety and Health of Road Transport Drivers (24 languages)
