Patient & Employee Safety Tools
It is essential to have up-to-date policies, procedures and forms to support your safe patient handling program. This section contains resources that focus on patient and employee safety.
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Need a Lift? Just Ask Flyer
Post this flyer in patient rooms to remind them to call if they need to be moved or lifted.
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Lifting and Material Handling
Injuries in the workplace are frequently caused by lifting heavy items. This document provides tips on the correct way to handle the lifting of heavy items.
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OSHA & Worker Safety: Handling with Care – Practicing Safe Patient Handling
These tips present safe patient handling practices for healthcare workers. It supplies algorithms for safety in transfers common to healthcare workers daily.
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OSHA Resources
This resource from OSHA provides tools and programs for heathcare facilities implementing safe handling programs.
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10 Commandments of Lifting
A quick guide that can be printed as pocket cards for staff education. This guide is to remind staff of the most important points to consider before lifting anything, including patients.
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Safe Patient Handling: Recommended Best Practices
A presentation created by the University of Texas-School of Public Health. This presentation contains key information about the components of Safe Patient Handling programs recommended by OSHA and NIOSH, it describes techniques and strategies for managing patient handling and discusses how recommendations can be incorporated into your organizational policies for safe patient handling.