Workplace Safety Consultation -- Safe-patient-handling legislation, resources

About the event

Minnesota OSHA Workplace Safety Consultation and the Minnesota Safety Council presented the second annual full-day Minnesota Safe Patient Handling and Movement Program on May 14, during the 79th Annual Minnesota Safety and Health Conference at the Minneapolis Convention Center.

The full-day workshop was open to anyone interested in the most recent information about safe patient-handling. The sessions provided health care professionals, safety professionals and administrators in acute and long-term-care settings with the best information available about the development, implementation and maintenance of a safe-patient-handling program. Representatives from hospitals, clinics and skilled nursing care facilities discussed efforts aimed at promoting safe patient-handling while cultivating a healthy workforce and ensuring quality of care.

Materials presented during the program

The following materials were used by presenters during the program.

• Banner Health:  Banner Mobility Assessment Tools (BMAT)

• BMAT for nurses

• Mobility equipment options

• Picture guide

• Banner Health:  Early mobility and safe patient handling; expected clinical practice for the R.N.

• Lateral transfer (bed to gurney, bed to bed, bed or gurney to exam table)

• Vertical transfer (bed to chair, bed to commode, bed to wheelchair)

• Brochure:  Free ergonomics evaluation and training assistance

• Industry best-practices:  health care and manufacturing

• Study results:  Nursing home ergonomics services evaluation

Presentations

• A. Establishing your safe-patient-handling committee -- for nursing homes, hospitals and outpatient surgical centers

• B. Managing ergonomics in the workplace:  Managing ergonomic risk-factors in nursing homes

• C. Managing ergonomics in the workplace:  Reducing the risks associated with resident lifting and moving

• D. Safe patient-handling:  Establishing a safe-patient-handling program to change outdated practices

• E. Safe patient-handling:  Minnesota Statutes 182.6553 and 182.6554; Establishing a safe-patient-handling program

• Beyond getting started:  A resource guide for implementing a safe-patient-handling program in the acute-care setting

• Patient handling and movement assessments:  a white paper; prepared by the 2010 Health Guidelines Revision Committee Specialty Subcommittee on Patient Movement

• Appendix C -- PHAM equipment categories

• Appendix D -- Sling selection chart

• Appendix J -- Floor-based lifts coverage determination

• Improving patient and worker safety:  Opportunities for synergy, collaboration and innovation

• Cover feature:  Myths and facts about Minnesota's new safe patient handling statute and your dental practice

• Dental hazard assessment algorithms for wheelchair patients, repositioning in chair

• Health care comes home:  The human factors

• Safe lifting programs at long-term-care facilities and their impact on workers' compensation costs

• Home healthcare workers:  How to prevent musculoskeletal disorders

• Safe lifting and movement of nursing home residents

• ADA guide for small businesses

• ADA:  Access to medical care for individuals with mobility disabilities

• Ergonomics:  Guidelines for nursing homes

• Hospital eTool

• Nursing home eTool

• Guide:  Ergonomics resource guides

• Guide:  Technology resource guide

• VA Sunshine Healthcare Network:  Safe patient handling and movement