Abstract
Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders (WMSD) is the most serious problem of occupational disease in industrialized countries. In order to eliminate or lessen the WMSD threat, all the developed countries tried their best to enforce WMSD preventive policies, established a WMSD prevention system to execute WMSD preventive works. This research is a study of the WMSD prevention system in Taiwan and three developed countries: USA, UK and Australian. This research analyzes how those countries run their WMSD prevention systems and proposed some suggestions for our Taiwan. By analyzing WMSD documents、official website of WMSD prevention organizations、WMSD publications and other information on network, this research discussed those countries WMSD prevention systems in four parts. After analyzed those WMSD prevention systems, this research has a comparison of all prevention systems, and provided some suggestions that can be use to improve the prevention system of Taiwan in the future. According to the research, the WMSD prevention systems is a triangle with the government unit、national and private research units, and executive units like unions, industries and clinics. Above all those units, there is a consultation unit. The works of those units are workplace investigation, make rules and guidelines, techniques research, safety training and popularizing. After the analyzed of all those countries, this research provided some suggestions, such as: Let the Department of Labor Safety and Health and/or the Department of Labor Inspection be the main organization of WMSD prevention, establish the guidelines of WMSD workplace inspection and enforce the WMSD workplace inspection be a part of normal WMSD workplace inspections. Let the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health be the main organization of WMSD research institute. Establish WMSD research institutes in universities and support WMSD organizations formed a committee. Cooperate with the Department of Labor Insurance to establish a monitor team of occupational injuries. The main organization of WMSD prevention establishes a WMSD prevention trainer talent bank to help the main organization do the training of WMSD prevention, spreading the prevention into the workplace of Taiwan.