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Health care workers face increasing risks of injury while caring for others, with recent studies showing alarming rates of workplace accidents. From lifting patients to managing infectious diseases, ...

California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a new bill requiring all California hospitals to have a safe patient handling policy, including “lift teams” trained to move patients using proper lift equipment ...

Many manual labor jobs call for minimal lifting at the very least throughout the shift, but not all employees are equally trained in proper lifting techniques. The end results can be herniated discs, ...

Decades of research support legislation to enact safe patient limits for nurses; the bill would task DPH with implementing enforceable limits in hospitals State legislators to also review bills to ...