Type Visual resources, Guides & Tools
USA
LanguageEnglish
ProviderTriMedia Environmental & Engineering Firm
This website provides information (and a short film) about several interventions in the healthcare industry. Healthcare workers make diagnoses and prognoses all day long, but it isn’t always easy for them to recognize signs and symptoms of injury in themselves. Although hospitals and other...
Type Guides & Tools
Tanska
LanguageDanish
ProviderIndustry community for the working environment for welfare and public administration
This toolbox contains seven specific tools that can be used in the local MED / occupational health groups' work to prevent MSDs in municipalities, hospitals and regions.
Type Guides & Tools
Tanska
LanguageDanish
ProviderIndustry community for the working environment for welfare and public administration
This is an instrument to develop the practice of moving people at the workplace that focuses not just on specific techniques and technical aids, but on other aspects of the process and culture at the workplace, e.g. the attitude towards health, support from colleagues, understanding of cooperation...
Type Guides & Tools
Tanska
LanguageDanish
ProviderIndustry community for the working environment for welfare and public administration
This tool describes the key elements of good transfer of people and the prerequisites for using them. The booklet describes basic principles for good transfer, the use of assistive devices and roles in the transfer, as well as methods such as the transfer pyramid, the transfer flower and the...
Type Guides & Tools
USA
LanguageEnglish
ProviderOregon Occupational Safety and Health (Oregon OSHA)
This booklet is designed to provide general guidance for employers and employees about how to prevent back injury as a result of lifting and moving patients and residents. It may be useful in settings such as hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, board and care homes, and during the...
Type Visual resources
Tanska
LanguageDanish
ProviderIndustry Community for the Working Environment for Welfare and Public Administration
This poster, showing a pyramid can be used to raise awareness of the transfer technique in everyday life. Use it for example at staff meetings and in teaching or to raise awareness about transfer technology in everyday life.