Posted By Keith Higgs Steve, HSE has produced an excellent publication on Upper limb disorders in the workplace (HSG60[rev]) which discusses a number of factors giving risk to musculoskeletal disorders. However, having completed a post-grad certificate course in ergonomics recently I would be very wary of untrained individuals tackling this subject on the workforce. I am not saying that your working group members are not trained but ergonomics draws together many disparate factors into a few practical workplace interventions. Chose the wrong ones, or the wrong combination and this could be expensive in cash and health terms. My advice is to call in a trained ergonomist. The starting point is to examine records of ill health related to musculoskeletal injury and present these to the ergonomist. There are a variety of approaches that can follow on which include direct observation, employee interviews, occupational health checks etc. Don't underestimate the magnitude of the task. Keith