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
Air assisted device lateral transfer	N/A
Assisting a falling patient from standing	Assisted Fall from Standing video
Assist overhead lift transfer	Overhead Lift Transfer – Transfer Sling video
Assist with stand assist frame (e.g. Sara Steady)	Stand Assist Frame
Bed repositioning with bed sheet slider system	Bed Sheet Slider System – Bed Repositioning & Turning video
Bed repositioning with slider sheets	Slider Sheets – Bed Repositioning & Turning video
Emergency evacuation – transfer bed to floor	N/A
Fall recovery from floor – total mechanical assist, no injury	Fall Recovery Total Assist video
Floor lift transfer	Mechanical Total Floor Lift Transfer video
Full manual assist recovery from fall to floor, significant injury sustained	N/A
Inserting and removing sliders	Slider Sheets – Insertion & Removal video
Lateral transfer with full length slider sheets	N/A
Lateral transfer with rollerboard	N/A
Log roll for spinal precautions on bed or stretcher	N/A
One person assist to lie sit / sit to lie	Lie to Sit video
1 or 2 minimal assist with transfer belt	Transfer Belt 1 and 2 Person Assist video
Portable ceiling lift set up / room to room transfer	Overhead Lift Transfer – Transfer Sling video
Repositioning sling	Overhead Lift Repositioning Sling video
Supervised recovery from floor	Supervised Recovery From Floor video
Transfer chair to floor	N/A
Turn with bed sheet slider system	Bed Sheet Slider System – Bed Repositioning & Turning video
Turn with full length sliders	Slider Sheets – Bed Repositioning & Turning video
Two assist mechanical sit to stand transfer	Mechanical Sit to Stand Transfer video
Two person assist to sit / sit to lie	Lie to Sit video
Two person seated sling insertion/removal chair	Sling Insertions video

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