10.5 Blog about an occupational safety and health organization

I looked up CAL/OSHA's Safe Patient Handling Safety Program. It was a byproduct of The Hospital Patient and Health Care Worker Injury Protection Act (AB 1136), effective January 1, 2012. This law and subsequent program are very useful in the workplace, even for clinical research. Patients will come in for a research visit and sometimes insist on walking even when they are unstable. There was one patient at my first study I remember who routinely did this. If we didn't have the work safety training to know not to lunge after him as he fell, we could've thrown our backs out trying to help him. This used to happen a lot at hospitals, but thanks to this program workplace injuries related to patient care shouldn't be so prevalent. It's just up to the employer and training programs to make sure employees know how to protect themselves.