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"AimsThis study evaluates the influence of individual and organisational factors on nurses' behaviour to use lifting devices in healthcare.MethodsInterviews among nurses were conducted to collect individual characteristics and to establish their behaviour regarding lifting devices use. Organisational factors were collected by questionnaires and walk-through-surveys, comprising technical facilities, organisation of care, and management-efforts. Generalised-Estimating-Equations for repeated measurements were used to estimate determinants of nurses' behaviour.ResultsImportant determinants of nurses' behaviour to use lifting devices were knowledge of workplace procedures (OR = 5.85), strict guidance on required lifting devices use (OR = 2.91), and sufficient lifting devices (OR = 1.92). Management-support and supportive-management-climate were associated with these determinants.ConclusionSince nurses' behaviour to use lifting devices is influenced by factors at different levels, studies in ergonomics should consider how multi-level factors impact each other. An integral approach, addressing individual and organisational levels, is necessary to facilitate appropriate implementation of ergonomic interventions, like lifting devices."

"This study aimed at developing a model for determining the work-relatedness of low-back pain for a worker with low-back pain using both a personal exposure profile for well-established risk factors and the probability of low-back pain if the worker were unexposed to these factors.The model is the first that estimates the probability of work-relatedness for low-back pain for a given worker with low-back pain seen by a general practitioner or an occupational health physician."

"In opdracht van de ministeries van Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid en Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport is door TNO Arbeid, in samenwerking met het Nederlands Kenniscentrum Arbeid en Klachten Bewegingsapparaat, de Faculteit der Bewegingswetenschappen van de Vrije Universiteit en het EMGO-instituut van het VU Medische Centrum, onderzoek verricht naar preventie, behandeling en reïntegratie bij Repetitive Strain Injuries (RSI). Het belangrijkste doel van deze studie was prioriteiten te stellen in toekomstig onderzoek naar de effectiviteit van preventieve, curatieve en reïntegratiemaatregelen voor RSI, zodat de onderzoeksmiddelen zo efficiënt mogelijk kunnen worden ingezet. Voordat de projectgroep deze prioriteiten kon stellen, was het van belang te weten van welke preventieve maatregelen, behandelingen en reïntegratiemethoden al wel bewezen was dat deze effectief zijn. In aanvulling daarop is de stand van zaken over ontstaansmechanismen weergegeven en wordt beknopt de stand van zaken voor risicofactoren voor RSI samengevat. "