Creating a safe patient handling program can help reduce injuries and time lost due to injury. Working in healthcare poses many safety concerns, including exposure to illness, physical injury, and ...

Hospitals that implement safe patient handling and moving policies may find these practices associated with fewer injuries among health care workers, a small study suggests. Researchers analyzed data ...

Hospital and health system risk managers are most concerned about patient handling, according to a recent Aon report, Health Care Workers Compensation Barometer. About a third of hospital employee ...

The American Nurses Association announced the release of national standards for safe patient handling and mobility to improve safety for both healthcare workers and patients. The ANA convened an ...

The association's president wrote to U.S. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., who sponsored S. 1788, warning that risk control approaches aren't available at this time to address all of the workers' exposures ...

California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a new bill requiring all California hospitals to have a safe patient handling policy, including “lift teams” trained to move patients using proper lift equipment ...

Buying equipment and training nurses for safe patient handling costs money. But done well, such efforts can save cash through reduced sick days and workers' compensation claims. With this in mind, it ...

These are the three of the top issues likely to be on states’ legislative and regulatory agendas this year, according to AIHA government affairs Director Aaron Trippler's forecast. Three safety issues ...