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Health and Safety
Published in Paul Lambden, The Osteopath’s Guide to Keeping Out of Trouble, 2018
Other Health and Safety at Work Regulations came into force on January 1 1993. They implement EC directives and update existing law. They cover: general health and safety managementwork equipment safetymanual handling of loadsworkplace conditionspersonal protective equipmentdisplay screen equipment.
Law, ethics and medicine
Published in Mari Robbins, Medical Receptionists and Secretaries Handbook, 2017
These new regulations are needed to implement six European Community (EC) directives on health and safety at work. At the same time, they are part of the continuing modernisation of UK law, and cover the following: health and safety management (revised in 1999)work equipment safety (amended in 2002)manual handling of loads (amended in 2002)workplace conditions (amended in 2002)personal protective equipment (amended in 2002)display-screen equipment (amended in 2002).
Health and Safety
Published in Michael Drury, Lynne Hobden-Clarke, The Practice Manager, 2017
Michael Drury, Lynne Hobden-Clarke
The new regulations have been introduced to both implement EC Directives and update existing law; they cover: general health and safety managementwork equipment safetymanual handling of loadsworkplace conditionspersonal protective equipmentdisplay screen equipment.
The association of musculoskeletal complaints and individual and work-related factors with work ability in Chilean white-collar and blue-collar workers
Published in International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2022
Francisco Javier Soto-Rodríguez, José Manuel Pérez-Mármol, Claudio Bascour-Sandoval, Claudio Muñoz-Poblete, Gabriel Nasri Marzuca-Nassr
Although the presence of complaints in the dorsal/lumbar spine was associated with reduced work ability in both groups, it was also associated with the presence of complaints in the wrist/hand segment in white-collar workers. By contrast, complaints of the forearm segment were also associated with a smaller magnitude of work ability in blue-collar workers. This finding could be explained by the job and the task performed, where white-collar workers are characterized by increased exposure to risks derived from posture and repetitiveness of the wrist/hand segment, given their administrative and office activities. However, blue-collar occupations are exposed to greater work of the upper extremities with handling manual loads and repeated actions, where the segment of the forearm is widely used and subjected to physical stress during repetitive work [33], as is the lumbar spine during the manual handling of loads [34,35].
The impacts of rest breaks and stretching exercises on lower back pain among commercial truck drivers in Iran
Published in International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2020
Mohammad Ghasemi, Amir Hossein Khoshakhlagh, Ali Ghanjal, Saeid Yazdanirad, Fereydoon Laal
Individuals in all groups were instructed at face-to-face visits and were given instructions by an occupational medicine specialist about the importance of rest breaks in preventing LBP and how to perform the breaks. Each subject also received a typed–pictorial relevant guide containing the definition of LBP, its clinical presentation and preventive actions such as proper manual handling of loads, proper sleeping, ergonomic sitting and proper driving.