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Call for action on soaring RSI rate
News | HSP | 27.02.2008
Lighter regulation questions
News | HSW | 12.12.2007
Using 'body mapping' to flag workers' ill health
Jocelyn Dorrell | Features | HSW | 09.11.2007
The technique of 'body mapping' was developed in the 1970s at Nottingham University to encourage workers to report ill-health symptoms. The employee-centred approach aids locating workplace health hazards and flagging up workers' health problems, especially musculoskeletal disorders, as Jocelyn Dorrell reports.
Please speak up: encouraging employees to flag up health problems
Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 17.10.2007
A whole raft of cultural and organisational barriers mean that too many UK workers are still failing to flag occupational health problems - whether or not they are caused by their jobs - until they can no longer work. Lucie Ponting looks at ways to encourage employees to flag up health problems such as stress or MSDs before they become acute.
Euroweek to lighten MSD load
News | HSW | 12.10.2007
Mental health problems and MSDs top absence risk league
News | HSW | 12.08.2007
European Safety Week
News | HSW | 12.08.2007
Musculoskeletal disorders will be the focus of this year's European Safety Week, which takes place from 22-26 October.
Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
Legislation | 17.05.2007
Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
Legislation | 17.05.2007
Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992 (Amended)
Legislation | 17.05.2007
Health and Safety at Work, etc Act 1974
Legislation | 17.05.2007
Health review
News | HSW | 01.05.2007
Dressing up can cause injuries
News | HSW | 01.04.2007
Case study: Monitoring the safety of lone workers
Sara Bean | Case Study | 01.03.2007
How do you monitor the safety of hundreds of solo maintenance and repair workers scattered all over a city centre? Sara Bean found out
Office workers underestimate back suffering
News | HSW | 01.02.2007
All thumbs
News | HSW | 01.12.2006
The Guardian makes news with RSI payout
Prosecutions and Claims | 01.07.2006
Why matching workstation equipment to individual need is vital
Duncan Abbott | Features | HSW | 01.07.2006
Duncan Abbott explains why matching workstation equipment closely to individual need is vital
The cost of office hazards
Sarah Silcox | Features | HSW | 01.06.2006
Sarah Silcox talks to a manager who argues office hazards can cost more than site accidents.
Effective safety communication
Duncan Abbott | Features | HSW | 01.08.2005
Effective safety communications are required to prevent musculoskeletal injuries in the UK waste industry says ergonomist Duncan Abbott
Pushing and pulling tasks are an overlooked aspect of manual handling
Duncan Abbott | Features | HSW | 01.01.2004
One in 10 RIDDOR-reportable accidents investigated by the HSE in 2003-04 involved pushing or pulling tasks. Duncan Abbott considers an overlooked aspect of manual handling
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