Summary - Prolonged constrained standing postures: health effects and good practice advice

Prolonged constrained standing postures Health effects and good practice Executive Summary Authors: Kees Peereboom and Nicolien de Langen (vhp human performance, the Netherlands) in cooperation with Alicja Bortkiewicz (Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Łodź, Poland) Sarah Copsey (EU-OSHA) Reviewed by Jacqueline Snijders (Panteia, the Netherlands). This report was commissioned by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA). Its contents, including any opinions and/or conclusions expressed, are those of the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of EU-OSHA. Project management: Sarah Copsey (EU-OSHA) Europe Direct is a service to help you find answers to your questions about the European Union Freephone number (*): 00 800 6 7 8 9 10 11 (*) Certain mobile telephone operators do not allow access to 00 800 numbers, or these calls may be billed. More information on the European Union is available on the Internet (http://europa.eu). Cataloguing data can be found on the cover of this publication. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2021 © European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, 2021 Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Introduction This report explores the issue of prolonged static or constrained standing at work (as opposed to work that involves walking around). Constrained standing is a...