Provincial Workplace Safety & Health Working Group

The Provincial Workplace Safety & Health working group’s objectives are to:

Facilitate and support consistency and collaboration of Workplace Safety and Health programming and practices across the Manitoba healthcare sector.
Provide a structure that identifies, encourages and facilitates Workplace Safety and Health initiatives which assist in the achievement of provincial priorities and goals.
Create a vehicle for the development of provincially standardized policies, procedures, training, and resources.
Identify strategic projects and priorities that will further the achievement of provincial priorities and goals.

Safe Work Procedures – Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention

Safe Work Procedure	Video
Inserting and removing sliders	Slider Sheets – Insertion & Removal video
Bed repositioning with bed sheet slider system	Bed Sheet Slider System – Bed Repositioning & Turning video
Turn with full length sliders	Slider Sheets – Bed Repositioning & Turning video
Bed repositioning with bed sheet slider system	Bed Sheet Slider System – Bed Repositioning & Turning video
Turn with bed sheet slider system	Bed Sheet Slider System – Bed Repositioning & Turning video
Repositioning sling	Overhead Lift Repositioning Sling video
Log roll for spinal precautions on bed or stretcher	N/A

Safe Work Procedure	Video
One person assist to lie sit / sit to lie	Lie to Sit video
Two person assist to sit / sit to lie	Lie to Sit video
1 or 2 minimal assist with transfer belt	Transfer Belt 1 and 2 Person Assist video
Assist with stand assist frame (e.g. Sara Stedy)	Stand Assist Frame
Two assist mechanical sit to stand transfer	Mechanical Sit to Stand Transfer video
Two person seated sling insertion/removal chair	Sling Insertions video
Floor lift transfer	Mechanical Total Floor Lift Transfer video
Assist overhead lift transfer	Overhead Lift Transfer – Transfer Sling video
Portable ceiling lift set up / room to room transfer	Overhead Lift Transfer – Transfer Sling video

Safe Work Procedure	Video
Lateral transfer with full length slider sheets	N/A
Lateral transfer with rollerboard	N/A
Air assisted device lateral transfer	N/A

Safe Work Procedure	Video
Supervised recovery from floor	Supervised Recovery From Floor video
Fall recovery from floor – total mechanical assist, no injury	Fall Recovery Total Assist video
Full manual assist recovery from fall to floor, significant injury sustained	N/A

Safe Work Procedure	Video
Assisting a falling patient from standing	Assisted Fall from Standing video
Transfer chair to floor	N/A
Emergency evacuation – transfer bed to floor	N/A

Contact
For more information, please email OESH@wrha.mb.ca.