What can we do to avoid overexertion? Organizational and psychosocial measures

Within the campaign belonging to EU-OSHA 2020-2022 whose title is "Healthy jobs: let's relax the burdens" we continue trying to share good practices, tips, tools that can help our associated companies avoid musculoskeletal disorders, disorders with an enormous prevalence over time and that generate a high cost for companies.

In this month, coinciding with our fratertalk dedicated to psychosocial risks, we are going to expose some good practices related to these risks. We know that we can improve musculoskeletal disorders by implementing organizational and ergonomic measures. We usually focus on ergonomic measures or improvements in the workplace, but today we are going to do it in the other part, that of measures within the organization and planning.

Implementing organizational measures we will improve in planning, avoiding stress, increasing commitment, participation, employee satisfaction, in addition to improving unforced errors that are made when we perform repetitive tasks or when we do not have enough time to perform the task with the sufficient quality required. From the production side it is clearly seen, by making adequate time planning, we will avoid long stops and in a global calculation we will gain in production by improving the prevention of occupational risks.

Within our guide of good practices to avoid risks psychosocial, we propose a lot of measures and examples that we encourage you to implement to avoid psychosocial risks and improve the associated TME, we recommend reading the entire guide but as always we put below a good practice as an example of what you will find in the guide:

If you want to see all the actions that Fraternidad-Muprespa carried out during 2020-2021 related to this campaign, you will only have to click on this link. We also advise you to enter our Prevention Classroom to be able to download two of our good practice guides:

• Good practices for the prevention of TME
• Good practices in technical solutions to reduce the risk due to manual handling of loads

For more than 90 years, at Fraternidad-Muprespa our priority objective is to help our associated companies avoid work accidents and occupational diseases, creating an authentic preventive culture in their organizations that Put safety before any other circumstance. Find out about all our activities in our Service Catalog.