{"id":596,"date":"2022-02-15T10:32:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T10:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quimicaambiental.org\/blog\/2022\/02\/15\/risk-assessment-training-and-policy-essential-for-healthy-telework\/"},"modified":"2022-02-15T10:32:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T10:32:20","slug":"risk-assessment-training-and-policy-essential-for-healthy-telework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quimicaambiental.org\/?p=596","title":{"rendered":"Risk assessment, training and policy \u2013 essential for healthy telework"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"tmgmt-1\">While home-based telework has potential advantages, it can also negatively affect workers\u2019 health and contribute to musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), if not properly managed.<\/p>\n<p id=\"tmgmt-2\">Together, employers and workers must perform a risk assessment of the home workplace to help mitigate factors that exacerbate MSDs and optimise workplace ergonomics. Employers must establish a telework policy that includes provisions on how to assess and manage occupational risk, ergonomic equipment, work hours and expected results. Additionally, education and training play an important role in the prevention and management of MSDs and help teleworkers stay active throughout the working day.<\/p>\n<p id=\"tmgmt-3\">Read the info sheet <a href=\"https:\/\/osha.europa.eu\/en\/highlights\/publications\/preventing-musculoskeletal-disorders-when-teleworking\">Preventing musculoskeletal disorders when teleworking<\/a>\u00a0and check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/osha.europa.eu\/en\/highlights\/publications\/musculoskeletal-disorders-related-telework-tips-teleworkers\">Tips for teleworkers<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/osha.europa.eu\/en\/highlights\/publications\/musculoskeletal-disorders-related-telework-tips-employers\">Tips for managers<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"tmgmt-4\">Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/healthy-workplaces.eu\/en\/about-topic\/priority-area\/telework\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MSDs and telework<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/osha.europa.eu\/en\/highlights\/risk-assessment-training-and-policy-essential-healthy-telework\">Origem da not\u00edcia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] While home-based telework has potential advantages, it can also negatively affect workers\u2019 health and contribute to musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), if not properly managed. Together, employers<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atualizacoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quimicaambiental.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quimicaambiental.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quimicaambiental.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quimicaambiental.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quimicaambiental.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quimicaambiental.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quimicaambiental.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quimicaambiental.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quimicaambiental.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}