National Safety Council Releases Second MSD Pledge Report

As I've said before, one of the things I am most proud of during g my career is the formation in 2021 of the National Safety Council's MSD Solutions Lab, and its various components, representing a partnership between NSC and Amazon to seek solutions for work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) across all industries and organizations.

The initiative includes the MSD Pledge, which created a community of businesses that work together with the shared goal of reducing MSDs. This initiative aims to reach this goal through three focus areas:

• Risk reduction, including understanding and analyzing the causes of MSD injuries and investing in solutions and practices to reduce risk;

• Organizational culture that values and promotes safety, including understanding that all workers, at every level of an organization, have a role to play in the safety and health of the workplace;

• Innovation and collaboration, including leveraging best practices and sharing learnings and innovations to improve safety practices across the community.

Upon release of its findings in its second MSD Pledge Report, on December 23, 2024, NSC stated that, “This year’s report reflects the dedication of the MSD Pledge community to building safer workplaces and protecting workers’ health....With the insights from the MSD Solutions Index, we see organizations are making significant strides and identifying critical areas for improvement, proving that the MSD Pledge can drive real change in the safety and wellbeing of workers worldwide.”