A Health and Safety Guideline for Your Workplace: Laboratory Safety
A Health and Safety Guideline for Your Workplace: Laboratory Safety. Identifies potential hazards associated with work in laboratories and outlines ergonomics considerations to address these hazards.

MSD Job Title/Task:Laboratory Worker
Topic: Design - Task Design - Workstation
Document Type:GuidelineYear:2006
Source:Industrial Accident Prevention AssociationView Source Details
Location: Ontario

Ergonomics in Hospital Design: A Guide and Workbook to Prevent Musculoskeletal Disorders
Ergonomics in Hospital Design: A Guide and Workbook to Prevent Musculoskeletal Disorders. Outlines how ergonomics can be integrated into the various design stages to enhance the work environment and prevent MSDs.

MSD Job Title/Task:Food Laboratory Worker Laundry X-Ray Technologist Healthcare - General
Topic:Design - Workstation MSD Prevention
Document Type:GuidelineYear:2006
Source:Ontario Safety Association for Community and HealthcareView Source Details
Location: Ontario

Ergonomic Problems and Solutions: Pharmaceuticals - Research and Development
This e-tool provides information on the musculoskeletal hazards that are present in a research laboratory related to reseach and development work. It also presents solutions to reduce the risk of MSD's for tasks related to decapping vials, design of pincers, and manual handling of full phase containers.

MSD Job Title/Task:Laboratory Worker
Topic:Manual Materials Handling Design - Workstation
Document Type:Year:2007
Source:HSEView Source Details
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Ergonomic Problems and Solutions: Pharmaceuticals - Manufacturing
This e-tool provides information on the musculoskeletal hazards that are present in a research laboratory. It also presents solutions for scoop design, handling of heavy tank lids, insolator design and lifting the lid on manufacturing vessels.

MSD Job Title/Task:Laboratory Worker
Topic:Manual Materials Handling Design - Workstation
Document Type:Year:2007
Source:HSEView Source Details
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Ergonomic Problems and Solutions: Pharmaceuticals - Packaging
This e-tool provides information on the musculoskeletal hazards that are present in packaging pharmaceuticals. The hazards presented involve tasks such as weighing packages, working on tables, and manual deblistering. Ergonomic interventions are provided for all the tasks presented.

MSD Job Title/Task:Laboratory Worker
Topic:Manual Materials Handling Design - Workstation
Document Type:Year:2007
Source:HSEView Source Details
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Ergonomic Problems and Solutions: Pharmaceuticals - Pipettes and Syringes - good design and safe use
This e-tool takes an extensive look at the use of pipettes and syringes in the pharmaceutical industry. It outlines what to look for when selecting pipettes while keeping ergonomics in mind. It also takes a look at work related musculoskeletal hazards when handling pipettes and syringes and provides several solutions to the MSD hazards presented.

MSD Job Title/Task:Laboratory Worker
Topic:Manual Materials Handling Design - Task Design - Tools
Document Type:Year:2007
Source:HSEView Source Details
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Ergonomic Problems and Solutions: Pharmaceuticals - Fume cupboards and bio-safety cabinets
Fume cupboards and bio-safety cabinets are in widespread use within the pharmaceutical industry, and play an important role in protecting users from hazardous substances. However many are poorly designed from an ergonomic perspective, making them difficult and inefficient to use and giving rise to awkward and uncomfortable working postures. This document provides a compendium of poor design features found in some cabinets and good features found on others.

MSD Job Title/Task:Laboratory Worker
Topic:Design - Workstation
Document Type:Year:2007
Source:HSEView Source Details
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Health and Safety Orientation for Laboratories
Health and Safety Orientation for Laboratories. This handbook contains general information on health and safety for laboratory workers. Reviews back safety, use of assistive tools/devices and addresses extremes in temperature.

MSD Job Title/Task: Laboratory Worker
Topic: Back Care Heat Stress
Document Type:BookletYear:2003
Source:Ontario Safety Association for Community and HealthcareView Source Details
Location: Ontario