“Ergonomists are committed to creating safe and healthy workplaces with the prevention of musculoskeletal disorders.” The Federation of the European Ergonomic Societies applied to be the official campaign partner of the upcoming Healthy Workplaces – Lighten the Load 2020-2022 campaign organized by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA).
The EU-OSHA campaign Healthy Workplaces—Lighten the Load 2020-2022 is raising awareness of work-related MSDs and encouraging employers, managers, workers, and their representatives to work together to manage those risks. For more information, see www.healthy-workplaces.eu.
Ergonomics plays a clear role in this activity. By its nature, ergonomics aims at prevention. Ergonomists have experience organizing participatory workplace interventions and developed strategies and practices to improve design activity in companies, and, after all, a great deal of the risks associated with safety and health can be derived from poor ergonomic design.
FEES campaign activities:
- FEES maintain a campaign partner position and promotes ergonomics directly through the campaign website and to the partners.
- Communicate that FEES and Federated Societies are members of the EU-OSHA network at the proper focal point.
- FEES selects one of the conferences dedicated to the campaign by Federated societies as the European Champaign conference.
- A press release a year
- Forwarding information between Federated Societies and other EU-OSHA partners through the campaign website
- FEES provides a slide show as resource material in English, which highlights ergonomics in the campaign
- Encourages all federated societies to become active members of the national EU OSHA focal point network.
- Encourages all federated societies to include the campaign message in their newsletter when is appropriate.
- Encourages all federated societies to organise at least one annual event dealing with the actual EU-OSHA campaign. The description of the events is at https://www.healthy-workplaces.eu/en/campaign-material/introducing-the-campaign-guide
- Encourages all federated societies to share their campaign materials with others through the FEES website.
- Encourages all federated societies to maintain a page (national language) on their website dedicated to the campaign,
- with the campaign logo and link,
- with FEES Campaign Pledge,
- with a link to the FEES campaign site
In the European Month of Ergonomics 2020 FEES
highlights what ergonomics is beyond MSD and the role of ergonomics in workplace safety and health.
Link: http://www.healthy-workplaces.eu/
