Nanosafety in Europe 2015-2020: Towards Safe and Sustainable Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology Innovations

Value of partnership for workplace health promotion: guideline for partnership building

This publication is an outcome of the project Workplace Health Promotion (WHP): National Health Policies and Strategies in an Enlarging Europe, carried out during 2005-2007. The guideline aims to offer ideas and ways to build partnerships by providing background for partnership building, a brief description of the situation of WHP in some...

Prevention of stress at work

Systematic review of risk factors for back disorders

Introduction and objective The purpose of this systematic review is the identification of work-related risk factors for the occurrence of back disorders. Several reviews on this topic have been published so far. However, none of these included clearly stated in- and exclusion criteria as well as a methodological quality assessment of the studies...

Validity of a job exposure matrix for physical activity

ntroduction and objective For the benefit of epidemiological research on physical activity and the risk of cancer, a job exposure matrix for physical activity (JEMPA) was made, including all occupations of the Dutch version of the 4-digit ILO occupational classification system. Physical activity was defined by number of hours sitting per 8-hour...

Risk factors for the development of neck disorders: a systematic review

Introduction and objective Though many epidemiologic studies have analyzed the rela­tionship between risk factors and neck disorders, no clear picture exists of the strength of the evidence of the major determinants. This is mainly due to the often poor quality of the conducted studies and the lack of a review that sufficiently summarizes...

Example of exposure assessment in a large cohort study on musculoskeletal disorders

The Dutch prospective study on the determinants of musculoskeletal disorders (n = 1763 ) is the first study in this field that quantified physical load at the workplace on a large scale. Baseline assessment of physical load was based on videorecordings and force measurements at the workplace and observations of posture, movement and force...

Multi-dynamic office chair: natural sitting behaviour with proper body support

Office work often requires seated postures for many hours a day. It has been observed that during sitting various postures are adopted. Obvious1y, one reason for this behaviour is given by the variety of postural demands stemming from the operations to be performed. Furthermore, we know that sustained postures most often demand a continuous...

Evaluation of working postures: review and newest results

A working posture is currently being evaluated mainly by regarding various body segments independently. Head/neck posture is mostly evaluated on the basis of experimental, biomechanical modelling and epidemiological studies relating neck load and health complaints to the inclination of the segment defined (head, neck, or head and neck as one)....