Momentum Builds For Safe Patient Handling Regs Nationally As Cal/OSHA Adopts New Rule

Safe patient handling regulations to address worker and patient advocates' concerns about ergonomic hazards in the health care sector are seen as a rapidly growing trend in the states, even as federal OSHA grapples independently with the issue but lacks both a specific standard and enforcement resources to fully deal with the subject, experts including the head of a major nurses' organization tell Inside OSHA Online . The biggest recent development in the growing momentum for safe patient handling is...