This course covers Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) ergonomic guidelines for safe patient handling and methods to protect workers in healthcare settings. Using OSHA's Ergonomics Guidelines for Nursing Homes as a basis for any healthcare facility, the course focuses on analyzing and identifying ergonomic hazards and practical solutions to address these issues.
This course covers Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) ergonomic guidelines for safe patient handling and methods to protect workers in healthcare settings. Using OSHA's Ergonomics Guidelines for Nursing Homes as a basis for any healthcare facility, the course focuses on analyzing and identifying ergonomic hazards and practical solutions to address these issues.
Course topics include developing an ergonomic process, identifying risk factors in patient handling and transfers, recognizing work processes with the potential for musculoskeletal injuries and illnesses, conducting resident and patient assessments, and implementing solutions through work practices and engineering controls. Upon course completion, students will be able to apply OSHA's Ergonomics Guidelines for Nursing Homes in their healthcare facility, understand the benefits of implementing an ergonomics process, and identify, analyze, and develop solutions for ergonomic problem jobs in healthcare.
Nursing home industry professionals, administrators, directors, managers, VPP program managers, auditors, collateral duty safety personnel, line supervisors designated with the responsibility to develop an ergonomics process, and healthcare industry professionals.
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