Reducing Injuries in Intermediate Care
Document offers an assessment of the risk factors for musculoskeletal and violence related injuries among care aides and licensed practical nurses in Intermediate care facilities.

MSD Job Title/Task:Client Handling
Topic:Client Handling Manual Materials Handling
Document Type:Technical PublicationYear:2003
Source:Occupational Health & Safety Agency for Healthcare in British ColumbiaView Source Details
Location: British Columbia

Ohio Bureau of Worker's Compensation -Ergonomics Best Practices for Extended-Care Facilities
Extended-care facility workers are caring individuals who often place more emphasis on patient safety issues than their own. Such circumstances have led to these employees sustaining frequent, and often severe, workplace injuries, according to the federal Bureau of Labour Statistics (BLS). This document details some of the ergonomic problems of major corporations, the solutions that were used to deal with them and the outcomes.

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Topic:MSD Prevention
Document Type:Workplace Best PracticeYear:n/a
Source:Ohio Bureau of Worker's Compensation View Source Details
Location: Ontario

How Much Can You Lift
How Much Can You Lift? Reviews factors to be considered when attempting to determine if a load is safe or unsafe in a healthcare setting. The 4 analysis factors are: worker characteristics, load characteristics, task characteristics, and environmental characteristics.

MSD Job Title/Task: Healthcare - General
Topic:Manual Materials Handling MSD Prevention
Document Type:Fact sheetYear:2006
Source:Ontario Safety Association for Community and HealthcareView Source Details
Location: Ontario

The Ergonomic Resource Guide for Organizations in Health and Community Care
The Ergonomic Resource Guide for Organizations in Health and Community Care. Provides guidelines for setting up ergonomics programs to prevent workplace injuries. Recommends administrative and engineering controls with examples for housekeeping, shipping/receiving, dietary, laundry, diagnostic imaging, ultrasound, laboratory, and home care workers.

MSD Job Title/Task: Healthcare - General
Topic:MSD Prevention
Document Type:GuidelineYear:2003
Source:Ontario Safety Association for Community and HealthcareView Source Details
Location: Ontario

Ergonomics in Hospital Design: A Guide and Workbook to Prevent Musculoskeletal Disorders
Ergonomics in Hospital Design: A Guide and Workbook to Prevent Musculoskeletal Disorders. Outlines how ergonomics can be integrated into the various design stages to enhance the work environment and prevent MSDs.

MSD Job Title/Task:Food Laboratory Worker Laundry X-Ray Technologist Healthcare - General
Topic:Design - Workstation MSD Prevention
Document Type:GuidelineYear:2006
Source:Ontario Safety Association for Community and HealthcareView Source Details
Location: Ontario

Be Pain Free - Think MSD
Be Pain Free - Think MSD. Participants will learn the signs and symptoms of MSDs, how to conduct a risk assessment and a number of ways to control MSD risks.

MSD Job Title/Task: Healthcare - General
Topic:MSD Prevention
Document Type:Training SessionYear:2006
Source:Ontario Safety Association for Community and HealthcareView Source Details
Location: Ontario

Ergonomic Guidelines in the Design of Long-Term Care Facilities
Ergonomic Guidelines in the Design of Long-Term Care Facilities. This document makes recommendations about ergonomic considerations when building or renovating a long-term care facility.

MSD Job Title/Task: Healthcare - General
Topic:Design - Workstation
Document Type:GuidelineYear:2003
Source:Ontario Safety Association for Community and HealthcareView Source Details
Location: Ontario

Preventing Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders in Sonography
This factsheet provides information on how sonographers can be at risk of development musculo-skeletal disorders. It also presents an investigation at a hospital antenatal unit which looked at the causes of MSD's for sonographers. It also recommends several changes in equipment, workpractices, and scheduling of exams which can help reduce the risk of musculoskeletal disorders among sonographers.

MSD Job Title/Task:
Topic:MSD Prevention Design - Tools
Document Type:Year:2006
Source:NIOSHView Source Details
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Guidelines for Nursing Homes
These guidelines provide recommendations for nursing home employers to help reduce the number and severity of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) in their facilities. It identifies problems and provides solutions for client handling tasks such as patient transfers (bed to chair, chaif to toilet, chair to chair etc..), lateral transfers (bed to stretcher, trolley), repositioning patients in bed, and repositions patients on a chair. it also identifies problems and solutions for tasks not related to client handling such as storage and transfer of food, supplies, and medications, the used of mobile medical equipment, working with liquids, the use of hand tools, the moving and storage of linen, doing the laundry, housekeeping, and waste disposal.

MSD Job Title/Task:Client Handling
Topic:MSD Prevention Client Handling
Document Type:Year:2003
Source:OSHAView Source Details
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Work Smarter, Not Just Harder : For small businesses - Dental Offices
This poster provides tips on how to reduce awkward postures in order to reduce the risk of musculoskeletal disorders for dental workers.

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Topic:MSD Prevention
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Source:Cal/OSHAView Source Details
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Ergonomic Problems and Solutions: Pharmaceuticals - Research and Development
This e-tool provides information on the musculoskeletal hazards that are present in a research laboratory related to reseach and development work. It also presents solutions to reduce the risk of MSD's for tasks related to decapping vials, design of pincers, and manual handling of full phase containers.

MSD Job Title/Task:Laboratory Worker
Topic:Manual Materials Handling Design - Workstation
Document Type:Year:2007
Source:HSEView Source Details
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Ergonomic Problems and Solutions: Pharmaceuticals - Manufacturing
This e-tool provides information on the musculoskeletal hazards that are present in a research laboratory. It also presents solutions for scoop design, handling of heavy tank lids, insolator design and lifting the lid on manufacturing vessels.

MSD Job Title/Task:Laboratory Worker
Topic:Manual Materials Handling Design - Workstation
Document Type:Year:2007
Source:HSEView Source Details
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Ergonomic Problems and Solutions: Pharmaceuticals - Packaging
This e-tool provides information on the musculoskeletal hazards that are present in packaging pharmaceuticals. The hazards presented involve tasks such as weighing packages, working on tables, and manual deblistering. Ergonomic interventions are provided for all the tasks presented.

MSD Job Title/Task:Laboratory Worker
Topic:Manual Materials Handling Design - Workstation
Document Type:Year:2007
Source:HSEView Source Details
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Ergonomic Problems and Solutions: Pharmaceuticals - Warehouse Distribution
This e-tool provides information on the musculoskeletal hazards that are present in the warehouse distributions of pharmaceuticals. It identifies ergonomic issues such as lifting in a restricted space, and discomfort experienced by high-rise truck drivers. Solutions to these issues are also provided.

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Topic:Manual Materials Handling Design - Workstation
Document Type:Year:2007
Source:HSEView Source Details
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Ergonomic Problems and Solutions: Pharmaceuticals - Pipettes and Syringes - good design and safe use
This e-tool takes an extensive look at the use of pipettes and syringes in the pharmaceutical industry. It outlines what to look for when selecting pipettes while keeping ergonomics in mind. It also takes a look at work related musculoskeletal hazards when handling pipettes and syringes and provides several solutions to the MSD hazards presented.

MSD Job Title/Task:Laboratory Worker
Topic:Manual Materials Handling Design - Task Design - Tools
Document Type:Year:2007
Source:HSEView Source Details
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Ergonomic Problems and Solutions: Pharmaceuticals - Fume cupboards and bio-safety cabinets
Fume cupboards and bio-safety cabinets are in widespread use within the pharmaceutical industry, and play an important role in protecting users from hazardous substances. However many are poorly designed from an ergonomic perspective, making them difficult and inefficient to use and giving rise to awkward and uncomfortable working postures. This document provides a compendium of poor design features found in some cabinets and good features found on others.

MSD Job Title/Task:Laboratory Worker
Topic:Design - Workstation
Document Type:Year:2007
Source:HSEView Source Details
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Patient handling techniques to prevent MSDs in health care
The primary cause for MSDs is patient handling tasks such as lifting, transferring, and repositioning of patients. This article provides recommendations and examples for nursing staff to help reducing the number and severity of MSDs due to patient handling.

MSD Job Title/Task:Client Handling
Topic:Client Handling
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Source:European Agency for Safety and Health at WorkView Source Details
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MSI PREVENTION BULLETIN 3: Bed Making and Cleaning in Health Care
This bulletin focuses on awkward postures associated with bed making and cleaning in health care. To reduce the risk of musculoskeletal disorders this bulletin provides recommendations on proper lifting and cleaning techniques when making and cleaning mattresses.

MSD Job Title/Task:Custodian/Housekeeping
Topic:Manual Materials Handling
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Source:WorkSafeBC / Workers Compensation Board of British ColumbiaView Source Details
Location: British Columbia

MSI PREVENTION BULLETIN 4: Room Cleaning in Health Care
This Bulletin focuses on specific tasks associated with room cleaning that put room attendants at risk of developing musculoskeletal disorders. It provides MSD hazards and solutions to tasks such as cleaning the toilet, cleaning horizontal and vertical surfaces, and handling garbage.

MSD Job Title/Task:Custodian/Housekeeping
Topic:MSD Prevention Design - Tools
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Source:WorkSafeBC / Workers Compensation Board of British ColumbiaView Source Details
Location: British Columbia

MSI PREVENTION BULLETIN 8: Laundry in Health Care Facilities
This Bulletin focuses on specific laundry related tasks that put housekeeping workers at risk of developing musculoskeletal disorders. It provides MSD hazards and solutions to tasks such as receiving and weighing laundry, sorting soiled linen, loading and unloading washing machines and dryers, folding and handling laundry, and handling laundry chemicals.

MSD Job Title/Task:Laundry Housekeeping
Topic:Manual Materials Handling Design - Tools MSD Prevention
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Source:WorkSafeBC / Workers Compensation Board of British ColumbiaView Source Details
Location: British Columbia

MSI PREVENTION BULLETIN 1: General X-ray Technologist
This Bulletin focuses on specific tasks carried out by x-ray technologists that put these workers at risk of developing musculoskeletal disorders. It provides MSD hazards and solutions to tasks such as bringing a patient into the patient room, handling a patient, positioning the x-ray tube, handling x-ray cassettes and developing x-ray film, and filing and carrying out administrative tasks.

MSD Job Title/Task:
Topic:Design - Workstation Client Handling
Document Type:Year:
Source:WorkSafeBC / Workers Compensation Board of British ColumbiaView Source Details
Location: British Columbia

Back Injury Prevention Program Lifts and Transfers
Back Injury Prevention Program Lifts and Transfers. The video provides a simple introduction to the following body components: skeletal, soft tissue and the nervous system and how they are involved in maintaining a healthy back. Basic forces and limitations that can lead to injury of the back are demonstrated. It includes both exercises that can be used to assist in maintaining a healthy back and demonstrations of some of the proper techniques that should be used when moving non-ambulatory individuals.

MSD Job Title/Task:Educational Assistant
Topic:Back Care
Document Type:VideoYear:2006
Source:Education Safety Association of OntarioView Source Details
Location: Ontario

Safety in Special Education Services Resource Book
Safety in Special Education Services Resource Book. This resource book helps readers maintain employee safety in special education services. The book includes information such as how to lift and transfer students with special needs and ergonomic risks of special education.

MSD Job Title/Task:Special Education
Topic: Person Lifts/Transfers
Document Type:BookletYear:2006
Source:Education Safety Association of OntarioView Source Details
Location: Ontario

A Health and Safety Guideline for Your Workplace: Laboratory Safety
A Health and Safety Guideline for Your Workplace: Laboratory Safety. Identifies potential hazards associated with work in laboratories and outlines ergonomics considerations to address these hazards.

MSD Job Title/Task:Laboratory Worker
Topic: Design - Task Design - Workstation
Document Type:GuidelineYear:2006
Source:Industrial Accident Prevention AssociationView Source Details
Location: Ontario

ErgoCheck: Cooking
Cooking. Reviews safe work practices, workstation layout, job design and lifting techniques to avoid MSD risk factors.

MSD Job Title/Task:Cooking
Topic:MSD Prevention
Document Type:Fact sheetYear:
Source:Ontario Service Safety AllianceView Source Details
Location: Ontario

ErgoCheck: Preparing Food
Preparing Food. Reviews workstation set-up to promote neutral postures and reduce forces related to material handling. Mention of task rotation and changes in working positions.

MSD Job Title/Task:Food Preparation
Topic:MSD Prevention
Document Type:Fact sheetYear:
Source:Ontario Service Safety AllianceView Source Details
Location: Ontario