OSHA launches program to protect nurses

Initiative to focus on preventing back and arm injuries among nursing employees


The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) plans a crack down on hospitals to prevent back and arm injuries among nursing employees, according to an article on the NPR website.

Nurses and nursing assistants suffer more of those debilitating injuries than any other occupation, mainly from moving and lifting patients.

OSHA inspectors will investigate what hospitals are doing to make sure that nursing employees don't get disabled doing their everyday jobs lifting patients.

OSHA's new initiative moves from from merely recommending safe practices to potentially fining hospitals if they do not adopt them.

 

Read the article.

 

 



July 2, 2015


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