Slip, Trip, and Fall Prevention for Healthcare Workers

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• Personal Author:
  Bell, Jennifer ; Collins, James W. ; Dalsey, Elizabeth ; Sublet, Virginia
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Work-related slip, trip, and fall incidents can frequently result in serious disabling injuries that impact a healthcare employee's ability to do his or her job, often resulting in lost workdays, reduced productivity, expensive worker compensation claims, and diminished ability to care for patients. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics [2009], the incidence rate of lost-workday injuries from slips, trips, and falls (STFs) on the same level in hospitals was 38.2 per 10,000 employees, which was 90% greater than the average rate for all other private industries combined (20.1 per 10,000 employees). STFs as a whole are the second most common cause of lost-workday injuries in hospitals. An analysis of workers' compensation injury claims from acute-care hospitals [Bell et al. 2008] showed that the lower extremities (knees, ankles, feet) were the body parts most commonly injured after STFs and the nature of injury was most often sprains, strains, dislocations and tears. In addition, STFs were significantly more likely to result in fractures and multiple injuries than were other types of injuries. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidental Falls Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Health Personnel Musculoskeletal System Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Accident-rates Accident-statistics Body-regions Disabled-workers Extremities Fall-protection Health-care Health-care-facilities Health-care-personnel Injuries Injury-prevention Lost-work-days Medical-personnel Nurses Occupational-accidents Surveillance

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• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB2011123
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Guidance
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; Georgia ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 8 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research ; R2P - Research 2 Practice
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  56 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20038120
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2011-103913
• Citation:
  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. 2011-123, 2010 Dec; :1-41
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2011
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:548bddd77b28c85c43e5a877aa730af81822f871b3c10aeec07f4a4485bfe9bc522605d88712fd3457afc47480afb4975b2b0616b04005901df55515f8893e59
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/5847/cdc_5847_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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