Back Care
Back Care. (NOTE: within the Safety Talk Manual pages 13-16) Leads the instructor through explaining dangers, identifying controls, demonstrating proper techniques and suggesting stretching exercises.

MSD Job Title/Task: Construction - General
Topic:Back Care
Document Type:Safety meetingYear:2007
Source:Construction Safety Association of OntarioView Source Details
Location: Ontario

Back Care and Manual Materials Handling in Construction
Back Care and Manual Materials Handling in Construction. This guideline reviews back anatomy, common risk factors for back injuries and the use of administrative and engineering controls for injury prevention.

MSD Job Title/Task: Construction - General
Topic:Back Care Manual Materials Handling
Document Type:GuidelineYear:1993
Source:Construction Safety Association of OntarioView Source Details
Location: Ontario

Back Care for Construction
Back Care for Construction. Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to demonstrate correct lifting and carrying techniques.

MSD Job Title/Task: Construction - General
Topic:Back Care
Document Type:Training SessionYear:
Source:Construction Safety Association of OntarioView Source Details
Location: Ontario

Back Care for Construction Video
Back Care for Construction Video This video demonstrates various lifting techniques, proper posture and basic back care. Workers on the job demonstrate back-saving procedures, including the golfer’s lift, overhead lift and two-person lift.

MSD Job Title/Task: Construction - General
Topic:Back Care
Document Type:Video (on-line)Year:
Source:Construction Safety Association of OntarioView Source Details
Location: Ontario

Back Injury Prevention Program Lifts and Transfers
Back Injury Prevention Program Lifts and Transfers. The video provides a simple introduction to the following body components: skeletal, soft tissue and the nervous system and how they are involved in maintaining a healthy back. Basic forces and limitations that can lead to injury of the back are demonstrated. It includes both exercises that can be used to assist in maintaining a healthy back and demonstrations of some of the proper techniques that should be used when moving non-ambulatory individuals.

MSD Job Title/Task:Educational Assistant
Topic:Back Care
Document Type:VideoYear:2006
Source:Education Safety Association of OntarioView Source Details
Location: Ontario

Back Injury Prevention
Back Injury Prevention Training. This half-day course reviews anatomy and biomechanical principles to reduce risk when handling materials.

MSD Job Title/Task: Electrical - General
Topic:Back Care
Document Type:Training sessionYear:
Source:Electrical & Utilities Safety AssociationView Source Details
Location: Ontario

Back Safety Video for Agriculture
Back Safety Video for Agriculture. This video shows how farmers, their families and employees should handle various lifting situations on the farm to reduce the chances of injury.

MSD Job Title/Task:Farming
Topic:Back Care
Document Type:VideoYear:
Source:Farm Safety AssociationView Source Details
Location: Ontario

Back Safety 101
Back Safety 101 Training Package. This 2-part kit focuses on the risk factors that lead to MSDs and offers solutions to help workplaces prevent these costly and painful problems. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

MSD Job Title/Task: Industrial/Manufacturing - General
Topic:Back Care Manual Materials Handling
Document Type:Training SessionYear:
Source:Industrial Accident Prevention AssociationView Source Details
Location: Ontario

How Does my Back Work
How Does my Back Work? Reviews proper posture and safe lifting principles, includes reference to use assistive devices if available. Also information relevant to pregnant caregivers.

MSD Job Title/Task: Healthcare - General
Topic:Back Care Client Handling Manual Materials Handling
Document Type:Fact sheetYear:2006
Source:Ontario Safety Association for Community and HealthcareView Source Details
Location: Ontario

Back Safety Awareness and Safe Lifting
Back Safety Awareness and Safe Lifting. Participants will be able to identify key elements of the spine, recognize common causes of back injuries, identify posture changes, re-evaluate current lifting techniques and learn preventative back care exercises.

MSD Job Title/Task: Healthcare - General
Topic:Back Care Manual Materials Handling
Document Type:Training sessionYear:
Source:Ontario Safety Association for Community and HealthcareView Source Details
Location: Ontario

Watch Your Back - Reducing Back Injuries
Watch Your Back - Reducing Back Injuries. This article reviews the benefits of proactive approach to reducing lower back injuries. Provides basic suggestions to prevent back injuries.

MSD Job Title/Task: Services - General
Topic:Back Care
Document Type:ArticleYear:2005
Source:Ontario Service Safety AllianceView Source Details
Location: Ontario

Back Care
Back Care. This booklet reviews basic anatomy of the spine, provides posture suggestions for sitting, standing, driving and the ABCs of awareness, body mechanics and conditioning.

MSD Job Title/Task: Pulp and Paper - General
Topic:Back Care
Document Type:BookletYear:
Source:Pulp and Paper Health and Safety AssociationView Source Details
Location: Ontario

Practical Ergonomics - Back Care Module
Practical Ergonomics - Back Care Module. 1/2 day session focused on the multiple risk factors of manual material handling and controls applying knowledge of engineering, environment, and human capabilities/limitations. Aspects include organization of work flow, job design/redesign as well as environment and pre-placement procedures where necessary.

MSD Job Title/Task:Manual Materials Handling
Topic:Back Care Manual Materials Handling
Document Type:Training SessionYear:
Source:Pulp and Paper Health and Safety AssociationView Source Details
Location: Ontario

Farmwise: your essential guide to health and safety in agriculture
This guidebook provides an overview on all types of health and safety issues in agriculture. Specifically, It contains sections which focus on health a safety concerns involving noise and vibration, as well as manual handling and musculoskeletal problems.

MSD Job Title/Task:
Topic:Back Care Design - Tools Design - Workstation Manual Materials Handling Vibration MSD Prevention
Document Type:Year:
Source:HSEView Source Details
Location:

ERGONOMICS & DRIVING
This pamphet takes a look at two major causes of musculoskeletal disorder among drivers; long term sitting, and whole body vibration. In order to reduce long term sitting and whole body vibration this pamphlet makes recommendations regarding the position of the driver's seat and well as ways to combat inactivity.

MSD Job Title/Task:Driving
Topic:Back Care Vibration
Document Type:Year:1998
Source:WorkSafe SaskatchewanView Source Details
Location: Saskatchewan

Lifting and Your Back & Lifting Injury Prevention
The Lifting and Your Back awareness video is a resource for health and safety professionals, supervisors and all workers. It is intended to assist with understanding how the back and related structures work together when a person is lifting an object. The Lifting Injury Prevention video is the same as the Lifting and Your Back video but includes a series of stretches and exercises that can be used to assist in keeping the back in good physical condition.

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Topic:Back Care
Document Type:Year:
Source:Education Safety Association of OntarioView Source Details
Location: Ontario

Ergonomic Safety Talk #2: Back care and lifting
This safety talk is one of a series of brief meetings held on regular basis with workers and their supervisors to discuss problems and concerns about health and safety. This talk discusses why back care matters, safe lifting, hazards when lifting, general ergonomic concerns, pre-shift stretching and some basic back stretches.

MSD Job Title/Task:
Topic:Back Care Manual Materials Handling
Document Type:Safety MeetingYear:2007
Source:Ontario Forestry Safe Workplace AssociationView Source Details
Location: Ontario

Construction Health and Safety Manual
Construction Health and Safety Manual. The manual contains everything you need to recognize and protect yourself against construction health and safety hazards. Relevant chapters include heat stress (chapter 6), cold stress (chapter 7) and back care (chapter 8).

MSD Job Title/Task: Construction - General
Topic: Back Care Cold Stress Heat Stress
Document Type:GuidelineYear:2007
Source:Construction Safety Association of OntarioView Source Details
Location: Ontario

Health and Safety Manual
Health and Safety Manual. A comprehensive safety manual developed for 6 trades (boilermakers, millwrights, refrigeration and air-conditioning mechanics, pipe trades, sprinkler and fire protection trades, and insulators). Chapter 8 is specific to back care/manual materials handling with overview of posture, lifting techniques and use of assistive devices.

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Topic: Back Care Manual Materials Handling
Document Type:GuidelineYear:1999
Source:Construction Safety Association of OntarioView Source Details
Location: Ontario

Boilermaker Multi-Level Program
Boilermaker Multi-Level Program. This program will be of benefit to boilermaker apprentices, journeypersons and supervisors includes a module on Back Care and Materials Handling.

MSD Job Title/Task:Boilermaker
Topic: Back Care Manual Materials Handling
Document Type:Training sessionYear:
Source:Construction Safety Association of OntarioView Source Details
Location: Ontario

Ergonomic Hazard Training (Certification Level 2)
Ergonomic Hazard Training (Certification Level 2). This awareness module will describe ergonomic hazards and how they cause injury and disease. It will cover the relevant legislation, standards and guidelines associated with manual material handling, back safety and workstation design.

MSD Job Title/Task: Education - General
Topic:MSD Prevention Manual Materials Handling Back Care Design - Workstation
Document Type:Training sessionYear:
Source:Education Safety Association of OntarioView Source Details
Location: Ontario

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

Back Injury Prevention
This resource provides answers the following questions: What is the most likely kind of injury resulting from manual materials handling? How can we prevent back injury resulting from Manual Materials Handling (MMH)? How does organization of the work flow reduce the risk for back injury due to MMH? How does job design/redesign reduce the risk for back injury due to MMH? How do you eliminate heavy MMH? How can we decrease MMH demands? How can we reduce stressful body movements in MMH? How do we set up a proper work pace, and a beneficial ratio of work to rest breaks, to reduce the risk for back pain due to MMH? How can we improve the environment to reduce the risk for injury due to MMH? How effective is pre-placement screening in back injury prevention? Does training reduce back injuries?

MSD Job Title/Task: Manager
Topic:Manual Materials Handling Back Care MSD Prevention
Document Type:GuidelineYear:2007
Source:CCOHSView Source Details
Location:

Ergonomic Survival Guide for Carpenters and Framers
This leaflet provides information on musculosketal hazards that workers in carpentry and framing face such as contact stress, over exertion, awkward postures, or back pains. In order to reduce the risk of MSD's this leaflet suggests reducing stooping and overhead work, utilizing proper lifting and teamwork, and using the right tools.

MSD Job Title/Task:Homebuilding
Topic:Manual Materials Handling Back Care
Document Type:Fact SheetYear:
Source:California Occupation Health and Safety AssociationView Source Details
Location:

Ergonomic Survival Guide for Cement Masons
This leaflet provides information on musculosketal hazards that cement masons face such as awkward postures, and back pains. In order to reduce the risk of MSD's this leaflet suggests reducing reaching, utilizing proper lifting techniques, and using the right tools.

MSD Job Title/Task:Masonry
Topic:Manual Materials Handling Back Care
Document Type:Year:
Source:Cal/OSHAView Source Details
Location:

Ergonomic Survival Guide for Electricians
This leaflet provides information on musculosketal hazards that electricians face such as awkward postures, over exertion, and repetitive ahnd work. In order to reduce the risk of MSD's this leaflet suggests utilizing proper lifting techniques, and using the appropriate tools for the job.

MSD Job Title/Task:Electrical Skilled Trades
Topic:Manual Materials Handling MSD Prevention Back Care
Document Type:Year:
Source:Cal/OSHAView Source Details
Location:

Ergonomic Considerations for Designing and Selecting Conveyor Belt Systems
Guidance produced by HSE, European and International Standards, and Ergonomics literature contains information on how to design workstations in relation to human body dimensions. This information is used here to provide guidance for designing and assessing conveyor belt workstations, for both seated and standing operators.

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Topic:Design - Workstation Back Care Contact Stress
Document Type:Year:
Source:HSEView Source Details
Location: