Injuries Books
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Handbook of Modern Hospital Safety, Second Edition
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, healthcare is one of the industries with the highest injury rates. This long overdue second edition of William Charney’s seminal work covers exposure paradigms and offers solutions and models of protection. Extensively updated, the new edition includes new information on technology to protect healthcare workers, discussions of threats in the form of ...
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Biomechanics in Ergonomics, Second Edition
Safety or comfort? Can you truly have one without the other? Is it feasible to have both? Although by no means the only factor, a deep understanding of biomechanics plays a leading role in the design of work and workplaces that are both pain and injury free. Standing firmly on the foundation built by the previous edition, the second edition of Biomechanics in Ergonomics establishes an ...
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Working Postures and Movements: Tools for Evaluation and Engineering
In most industries, musculoskeletal injuries are the most common work-related reason for employee absences. These injuries are often caused by static postures or repetitive movements that have to be maintained for many hours a day, such as intensive use of data entry devices, assembly work, parts inspection, equipment maintenance, manual materials handling, machinery operations, and vehicle ...
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Back Injury Among Healthcare Workers: Causes, Solutions, and Impacts
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently calculated nearly 60,000 musculoskeletal injuries to healthcare workers resulting from heavy lifting during attempts to move patients. Often the nurses, aides, orderlies, and attendants who suffered permanent injuries were forced out of the profession, straining an already inadequate pool of workers and wasting valuable knowledge and ...
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Working Safe: How to Help People Actively Care for Health and Safety, Second Edition
Written by world-renowned health and safety researcher E. Scott Geller, Working Safe: How to Help People Actively Care for Health and Safety, Second Edition presents science-based and practical approaches to improving attitudes and behavior for achieving an injury-free work environment. This book teaches proactive applications of behavior-based psychology for improving health and safety. Relevant ...
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Working Safe: How to Help People Actively Care for Health and Safety, Second Edition
Written by world-renowned health and safety researcher E. Scott Geller, Working Safe: How to Help People Actively Care for Health and Safety, Second Edition presents science-based and practical approaches to improving attitudes and behavior for achieving an injury-free work environment. This book teaches proactive applications of behavior-based psychology for improving health and safety. Relevant ...
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Trenching & Shoring (CD-ROM)
Every year, workers are seriously injured or even killed in trench construction, but a deep understanding of safety matters will bury the chances of these accidents happening. A trench cave-in can result in injuries and even deaths. Your first line of prevention is to reinforce your workers' know-how. With this program, they will learn to recognize trench hazards, avoid fatal cave-ins and ...
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Office Safety - Safe In 8 (DVD)
A quick guide to office safety to help keep your employees safe on the job.Here's an interesting fact. Did you know that more people get injured in the office than in any other work environment? It may not look like it, but the office is fraught with dangers, some of which you might not even be aware of. Spot them now before they happen and cause injuries. Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) How ...
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Office Safety - Safe In 8 (Video)
A quick guide to office safety to help keep your employees safe on the job.Here's an interesting fact. Did you know that more people get injured in the office than in any other work environment? It may not look like it, but the office is fraught with dangers, some of which you might not even be aware of. Spot them now before they happen and cause injuries. Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) ...
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Physiological Measurement
Physiological Measurement covers the quantitative measurement and visualization of physiological structure and function in clinical research and practice. More... ...
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