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Safe maintenance in practice Maintenance is to keep and preserve equipment and facility in a functional state. Maintenance is not only necessary to ensure reliability of technical structures or productivity of a company, but regular maintenance also has an important role in providing safer and healthier working conditions.

The report is primarily aimed at maintenance managers and engineers, production managers who procure external maintenance services, managers of maintenance companies that carry out contract maintenance, and safety and health representatives.

Available only in English (EN)

OSH in figures: work-related musculoskeletal disorders in the EU — Facts and figures The World Health Organisation has defined a work- related disorder as one that results from a number of factors, and where the work environment and the performance of the work contribute significantly, but in varying magnitude, to the causation of the disease. The term musculoskeletal disorder denotes health problems of the locomotor apparatus, i.e. muscles, tendons, the skeleton, cartilage, the vascular system, ligaments and nerves.

Work-related musculoskeletal disorders include all musculoskeletal disorders that are induced or aggravated by work and the circumstances of its performance.

Available only in English (EN)

2010 — 102 pp. — 21 × 29.7 cm ISBN 978-92-9191-338-1 Cat. No: TE-WE-10-003-EN-C Price (excluding VAT): €15

2010 — 179 pp. — 21 × 29.7 cm ISBN 978-92-9191-261-2 Cat. No: TE-RO-09-009-EN-C Price (excluding VAT): €15