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Participants:
- Maria Adelia Rossi - Occupational physician at University Hospital “San Martino”. Genoa-Italy.
- E. Waaijer, Linn Steer- Arjo researchers. Italy
- Olga Menoni - Center for Occupational Medicine. Italy
- Enrico Occhipinti - Center for Occupational Medicine. Italy
- Leena Tamminen - Researcher - Finnish Institute of Occupational Health. Turku-Finland.
Activities:
- MAPO method: models for risk assessment and management. Operative tools for risk assessment and management in the different assistance areas in hospitals: Italian experience in 1997-2007 decade.
- A regional strategy in prevention of risk and damage from patient manual handling: regional experience of standardized operative tool applied in all hospitals of Liguria Region.
- Aids in patient manual handling. Experience of specific aid design with relation to patient disability analysis: ergonomic aspects.
- Training effectiveness aimed at risk reduction from patient manual handling: training outcomes for health care workers.
Addressed to: work related risk prevention professionals, occupational physicians, managers of hospitals and other health care structures.
Documentation: The first 100 participants will receive a CD with the technical documentation of the MAPO method, and the excel software for its application.
References of interest:
- N. BATTEVI, O. MENONI, M. GRAZIA RICCI, S. CAIROLI ”MAPO index for risk assessment of patient manual handling in hospital wards: a validation study” – Ergonomics Vol. 49, No. 7, 10 June 2006, 671–687.
- S. HIGNETT, M. FRAY, M.A. ROSSI, L. TAMMINEN-PETER, S. HERMANNE, LOMI, S. DOCKRELL, T. COTRIM,
J.B. CANTINEAU, C JOHNSSO – “Implementation of the Manual Handling Directive in the healthcare industry in the European Union for patient handling tasks” – Int. J. Industrial Ergonomics 37
(2007): 415-423.
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