More information
- HSE website
- FitBack provides some useful
educational exercise programmes and information resources on back
care and back pain
- The TUC has a helpful interface called workSMART, with
information about RSI
and back
pain, as well as
back strain and
RSI pages on their main website
- HSE Better Backs
campaign has a pack and various resources
- The Canadian Centre for
Occupational Health and Safety offers a helpful overview of all
the issues surrounding work-related health
- BackCare – the campaign for
healthier backs
- The Faculty of Occupational Medicine
answers the question What is an
occupational health service?
- European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
MSD pages
- The back pain revolution, 2nd edition – textbook written by
Gordon Waddell, ISBN 0443072272. This book outlines how anyone
involved with the management of back pain can facilitate the best
possible outcomes
- The biomechanics of back pain, 2nd edition – textbook written
by Michael Adams, Kim Burton, Patricia Dolan, Nikolai Bogduk, ISBN
0443100683. This book gives in-depth coverage of the anatomy and
biomechanics of back pain, including overviews of research and
medico-legal issues
- Dame Carol Black reviews the health of Britain's working age
population in the report Working for a
healthier tomorrow
- A Summary of evidence submitted supports Dame Carol Black's
review of the health of Britain's working age population
- The PricewaterhouseCoopers report Building the case for
wellness considers the business and economic case for employers to
invest in staff wellness programmes
- Advising
patients about work is a leaflet produced by Department for
Work and Pensions that provides an evidence-based approached for
general practitioners and other healthcare professionals
-
Work related upper limb disorders, published by House of
Commons Library, Research paper 1998/51
- Information on the fit note,
which replaced the sick note in April 2010
- Statement
of fitness to work (fit note) - Guidance for employer
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