New educational resource aims to help reduce injuries among workers in the nursing home and residential care industries; additional resources available since May

OSHA has developed Safe Patient Handling: Preventing Musculoskeletal Disorders in Nursing Homes (PDF*), a new brochure that addresses the prevention of musculoskeletal disorders among nursing home and residential care workers and explains the benefits of implementing safe patient handling programs. To learn more, read the press release.

Also now available online — in English and Spanish — is a new QuickCard^TM, If You Work Around Lead, Don't Take it Home! This reference card explains the importance of protecting workers and their families from lead poisoning hazards by preventing workers from bringing this toxic metal home on their clothes, shoes, skin, hair and hands.