Abstract
This chapter discusses work-related musculo-skeletal disorders. A majority of epidemiological studies provide evidence for risk factors associated with the disorders. They rarely generate cause-and-effect relationship, although they do provide extremely useful data for setting up an underlying pathology of the disorders. The chapter presents a view of some of the key problems that continue to exist with respect to the quantification and prevention of work-related musculo-skeletal disorders in society. Ergonomic intervention at the workplace and the concept of designing for the user are central to such programs. The present concept of training in such situations is both unsound and futile because it does not address the real source of the problem. Training should be seen as providing an additional measure of safety to a system that has already been adjudged safe. It should not be considered as an alternative to providing that safe system of work.
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