Long-Term Effectiveness of ‘Zero-Lift Program’ in Seven Nursing Homes and One Hospital

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• Personal Author:
  Garg, Arun
• Description:
  The primary objective of this study was to reduce injuries to health care workers resulting from manual and transferring of patients. The 'zero-lift programs', using employee management advisory teams (participatory-team approach), were implemented in seven nursing homes and one hospital. The eight facilities varied in number of beds (mean + 145, range = 85-253) and number of nursing personnel (mean = 94, range = 57-136). All eight facilities had a large number of acute care patients. The 'zero-lift programs' were implemented by replacing manual lifting and transferring of patients, with modern, battery operated hoists and other patient transfer assistive devices. Ergonomics committees with nearly equal representation from management and employees selected the equipment and implementation of the 'zero-lift programs'. Injury statistics were collected during post -intervention for 51 months (range = 36-60 months) and were compared with pre-intervention data for 37 months (range = 30-54 months). [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Ergonomics Musculoskeletal Diseases Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Back-injuries Hospitals Injury-prevention Low-back-pain Manual-lifting Nursing-homes Occupational-safety-programs Transferring-patients
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Final Cooperative Agreement Report
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5 ; Wisconsin
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies ; OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-110
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000631
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB99-173007
• Citation:
  Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, U60-CCU-512089, 1999 Aug; :1-110
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1999
• Performing Organization:
  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19950930
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  19980929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:9f88cfd2831a8c9dd13fc8cd09786b9d91e712a7dceaa829567e0b982b0c9ea46119f7cf92655aa6a95bbc857959ab374c674955cb37e6f7ed0af87fe614eb39
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/217954/cdc_217954_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 76.22 MB ]