The danger of MSDs

Many employees experience pain in structures near the joints, such as muscles, tendons, nerves or ligaments. These pains are musculoskeletal disorders or MSDs and are responsible for many sick days.

The prevention of MSDs involves adapting employees’ workstations.

But how do you implement these changes?

Analyze the signs of MSDs

Once a dialogue has been established between the different parties, the MSD risk situations must be diagnosed and understood.

Occupational medicine is an organization that helps diagnose whether there are MSD problems in the company. It allows to identify risks and to determine the work situations to be analyzed in priority. < There are several possible ways to reduce MSDs. Consideration may be given to reducing workloads, reorganizing production or redesigning workstations. Working conditions can also be improved by reducing the repetition of gestures, introducing microbreaks, diversifying tasks or adapting tools. Finally, it is necessary to evaluate the measures taken, to judge their effectiveness and to adapt them if necessary.

To reduce the risk of low back pain as much as possible, solutions exist

Just replace bad habits with good ones!

Sit with your back straight, adjust your computer screen to your eye level to keep your neck and head in line with your spine, bend your knees to get down, muscle your abs. In fact, to compensate for the lack of tone in the stomach muscles, the back of the body is used twice as much. Also remember to take breaks and move regularly to prevent the back from settling into a bad position.