Type Visual resources, Guides & Tools
Canada
LanguageFrench
ProviderInstitut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST)
The purpose of this document is to promote reflection, present strategies facilitating the application, by nursing staff, of practices for preventing musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), and propose ways of supporting the implementation of these strategies. The document is presented in the form of...
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 Visual resources
Belgia
LanguageFrench
ProviderFederal Public Service Employment, Labor and Social Dialogue
This film, in French, is largely language-free and self-explanatory. It shows real tasks carried out by a home helper (e.g. cleaning, food preparation, caring for the client. It shows poor hazardous practices and practical solutions, e.g. to improve working heights and to make it easier to move...
Type Visual resources, Case study
Irlanti
LanguageEnglish
ProviderHealth and safety autority
This video of a risk assessment case study shows hospital staff sorting linen into laundry bags and putting bags into linen cages. It points out the risks and gives a solution for the problems showed.
Type Visual resources, Case study
Irlanti
LanguageEnglish
ProviderHealth and safety autority
This video of a risk assesment case study shows carers attempting to lift a patient who has fallen in a hospital bathroom. It points out the risks and gives a solution for the problems showed.
Type Visual resources, Case study
Irlanti
LanguageEnglish
ProviderHealth and safety autority
This video of a risk assessment case study shows carers lifting a bed-bound patient in order to change a mattress. It points out the risks and gives a solution for the problems showed.
Type Visual resources, Case study
Irlanti
LanguageEnglish
ProviderHealth and safety autority
This video of a risk assessment case study shows a patient wearing long leg plaster is moved from bed tot wheelchair. It points out the risks and gives a solution for the problems showed.