Safe Lifting and Movement of Nursing Home Residents

Details

• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Personal Author:
  Collins, James W. ; Nelson, Audrey ; Sublet, Virginia
• Description:
  This guide is intended for nursing home owners, administrators, nurse managers, safety and health professionals, and workers who are interested in establishing a safe resident lifting program. Research conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the Veterans' Health Administration (VHA), and the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee has shown that safe resident lifting programs that incorporate mechanical lifting equipment can protect workers from injury, reduce workers' compensation costs, and improve the quality of care delivered to residents. This guide also presents a business case to show that the investment in lifting equipment and training can be recovered through reduced workers' compensation expenses and costs associated with lost and restricted work days. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  by James W. Collins, Audrey Nelson, Virginia Sublet.
  
  Also available via the World Wide Web as an Acrobat .pdf file (4.2 MB, 32 p.)
  
  Includes bibliographical references (p. 19-20).
  
  
• Subjects:
  Engineering Ergonomics Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Health Personnel Lifting Musculoskeletal Diseases Nursing Homes Occupational Health Safety Transportation Of Patients/methods
• Keywords:
  Ergonomics; Musculoskeletal-system-disorders; Health-care-facilities; Health-care-personnel; Injury-prevention; Engineering-controls; Control-technology; Surveillance
• Source:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2006-117, 2006 Feb; :1-20
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Guidance
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  30 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20029603
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2006-109009
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2006
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:372bce93e4b9d98d20e032c54d5b6fdf6eab98defa8efdbea0ccd3b080576258f6a64f0dccacbc0140df4876360deca6915c5f4ff7ecac54bd2c7cc8b46c9655
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/21965/cdc_21965_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 4.12 MB ]