What can your team do to remind each other to use patient-lifting procedures? What else could your team do to prevent injuries when lifting or transporting patients?
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Frontline workers and managers
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This list of safety practices compiled by an Imaging Services team in Northern California can form the basis for team discussions of ways to reduce workplace injuries and increase awareness of safety.
Best practices for eliminating patient-lifting and other workplace injuries by building safety into everyday work processes, from the Antioch Imaging Services team in Northern California.
Checklist used by turn team captains in San Diego's 2 North/South Med-Surg units when the team turns or lifts a patient, to ensure the procedure is done safely and the chance of injury is minimized.