Musculoskeletal Health Toolkit for Employers
Employers have a legal duty to provide safe workplaces that do not damage employees health, and a key part of this is considering risk around musculoskeletal health. This toolkit developed in partnership with ARMA, provides practical advice for employers regarding employee musculoskeletal health and reducing workplace absence. Each workplace has its own circumstances that can impact on our musculoskeletal health positively and negatively. This musculoskeletal health toolkit can help you understand the challenges specific to your workplace, reduce the risks of problems, help to keep those with existing problems in work and aid recovery where possible
The Musculoskeletal (MSK) Health Toolkit for Employers explains
- Why MSK health is important to you and for your business
- What can be done to prevent MSK problems and reduce work loss
- How you can achieve this, whether you are a small, medium or large employer
Good musculoskeletal (MSK) health is integral to a full working life. It supports us with functional mobility and dexterity, balance and co-ordination, and contributes to muscular strength and endurance; essential to nearly all forms of work. It also enables us to stay physically and mentally fit and reduce the occurrence of other health problems. Action should be taken at all ages to invest in enhancing education, awareness and opportunities to engage in understanding good MSK health and how to reduce the risks of developing an MSK problem.
View and download the seven other toolkits in this series, developed in partnership with Public Health England
Crisis Management in the Event of a Suicide
Crisis Management In The Event Of A Suicide: A Postvention Toolkit For Employers, developed with support from Samaritans, offers practical advice for employers to follow in the aftermath of an employee suicide.
Domestic Abuse Toolkit
Domestic Abuse Toolkit. This toolkit, sponsored by The Insurance Charities, provides support and guidance for employers in responding to the risk of domestic abuse.
Drugs, Alcohol and Tobacco: A Toolkit For Employers
Drugs, Alcohol and Tobacco: A Toolkit For Employers. Supporting your employees wellbeing to reduce sickness, absence, and improve mental wellbeing and productivity.
Mental Health For Employers Toolkit
The Mental Health For Employers Toolkit is Business in the Community’s flagship publication and helps employers pick out the most valuable resources relating to mental health and develop an approach to a healthy workplace that really works.
Physical Activity, Healthy Eating and Healthier Weight: A Toolkit For Employers
Physical Activity, Healthy Eating and Healthier Weight: A Toolkit For Employers. This toolkit shows how working in partnership with employees, employers can take a positive, proactive, preventative approach to support weight management and encourage greater physical activity.
Sleep and Recovery Toolkit
Sleep and Recovery Toolkit. This toolkit sponsored by Anglian Water, offers insight and advice on addressing the increasingly damaging sleep-loss epidemic affecting the nation.
Reducing the risk of suicide
Reducing the risk of suicide. This provides support and advice on how to incorporate suicide prevention into an employer’s workplace health and wellbeing framework. It was developed with support from Samaritans.
Assess your baseline context of staff health and wellbeing
- Download the employer self assessment tool to assess the baseline context of staff health and wellbeing