scholarly journals Proceedings of the 3rd P4Work Symposium – Work & Pain

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Bellosta-López ◽  
Víctor Doménech-García ◽  
Sandra Calvo Carrión ◽  
Carolina Jiménez Sánchez ◽  
Julia Blasco-Abadía
Keyword(s):  
Musculoskeletal Disorders ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Work Related ◽  
High Quality Evidence ◽  
Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders ◽  
Work Health ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Knowledge Alliance ◽  
Research World

The Knowledge Alliance Prevent4Work for Preventing Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders aims at establishing a collaborative network between higher education and research world, work health-related institutions, technology enterprises, and companies from different activity sectors to develop innovative educational programs, high quality evidence-based material and actions that could be implemented in the European Union to improve the prevention and management of Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders. The present work compiles the proceedings of the Third P4Work Symposium – Work & Pain. The virtual symposium was organized by Universidad San Jorge and INP Formation in collaboration with the other partners of the "Prevent 4 Work" project and was held on 20 October 2021 via Zoom.

Updates on NORA Musculoskeletal Health Cross-Sector Council Activities

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 1279-1281
Author(s):  
David M. Rempel ◽  
Scott Schneider ◽  
Sean Gallagher ◽  
Sheree Gibson ◽  
Susan Kotowski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Musculoskeletal Disorders ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Occupational Safety And Health ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Musculoskeletal Health ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders ◽  
Collaborative Efforts

The National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) is a research framework for the nation and for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). The NORA Musculoskeletal Health Cross-Sector (MUS) Council focuses on the mitigation of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs). Two projects have been chosen by the MUS Council for disseminating existing information on ergonomic assessment methods and interventions. The first project involves collaboration with the AIHA Ergonomics Committee on the latest update of the AIHA Ergonomic Assessment Toolkit. The second project aims to post all-industry information on ergonomic solutions/interventions/guidelines in collaboration with the International Ergonomics Association (IEA). The MUS Council plans on leveraging the collaborative efforts for promoting widespread adoption of evidence-based workplace practices for the prevention of WMSDs.

Adverse Work Stress Reactions — A Review of the Potential Influence on Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders (WMSDS)

2000 ◽  
Vol 44 (30) ◽  
pp. 5-457-5-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. J. Devereux ◽  
P.W. Buckle
Keyword(s):  
Musculoskeletal Disorders ◽  
Work Stress ◽  
Reciprocal Relationship ◽  
Stress Reactions ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders ◽  
Health Burdens ◽  
The Impact

Available data show that work stress and work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) are the leading occupational health burdens in Member States of the European Union. Cross-sectional data do no provide a clear indication of the impact of work stress upon WMSDs. Studies have used different indicators for stress and this makes comparison between them more difficult. Similar workplace risk factors, including physical and psychosocial, seem to be associated with work stress and WMSDs. Stress has been implicated in the pathology of WMSDs but many hypotheses require further investigation. There is some epidemiological evidence to support work stress reactions as a predictor of WMSDs and a weighted reciprocal relationship may also exist between these two health problems. However, more longitudinal studies are required to clarify this issue.

scholarly journals Assessment tools analysis of work-related musculoskeletal disorders: strengths and limitations

2021 ◽  
Vol 342 ◽  
pp. 01009
Author(s):  
Mihai Popescu – Stelea ◽  
Roland Iosif Moraru ◽  
Gabriel Bujor Băbuţ ◽  
Loriana Zamfir Farkas
Keyword(s):  
Musculoskeletal Disorders ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Postural Stress ◽  
Basic Stage ◽  
Mutual Adaptation ◽  
Risk Assessment Tools ◽  
Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders ◽  
Human Material

Musculoskeletal disorders are one of the most common occupational diseases, affecting millions of workers in the European Union and costing employers billions of euros. Researching the relationships and possibilities of optimal mutual adaptation, under given conditions, both of human to his work and of work to humans, in order to increase the technical-economic efficiency, to optimize the conditions of satisfaction, motivation and work results, while maintaining the worker’s state of health also involves, as a basic stage, the assessment of the risks of osteomuscular-articular overload. Starting from a statistical synthesis on the incidence of MSD and the characteristic types of demands, the paper systematizes in a unitary vision the categories of methods, techniques and tools available for recording and evaluating the factors of physical and postural stress of workers. The pointed description of three of the most commonly applied ergonomic risk assessment tools, aimed at developing a synthesis of Strengths-Weaknesses type, which highlights the advantages of methods in counterbalance with their limitations, providing a first basis for selection in order to apply them in the practice of companies that are aware that investing in safety means investing in profit and not losing financial resources and implicitly human, material ones.

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