Posture Perfect
When working at a computer, your feet should ideally be in this position.
What is flat on the floor or supported by a footrest?
This type of equipment uses a sling and an overhead track to lift or transfer a patient while reducing the need for manual lifting.
What is a ceiling lift?
This type of footwear helps reduce the risk of slipping on wet or slippery hospital floors.
What are slip-resistant shoes?
This sign and bed cover visibly alerts staff to the risk of a patient becoming potentially violent.
What is the green blanket/green blanket sign?
This group of medical professionals should be called when reporting a harm event in the department to help direct care and assist with reporting.
What is the Nurse Triage Line?
This common ergonomic risk factor occurs when an employee repeatedly performs the same motion throughout their shift.
What is repetition or repetitive motion?
This mobile floor lift can hold up to 660 pounds.
What is a Viking?
Electrical cords stretched across walkways, cluttered hallways, and equipment left in walking paths are all examples of this type of hazard.
What are trip hazards?
This is a built-in feature on medical devices such as needles, syringes, or scalpels and designed to isolate or cover the sharp point or edge immediately after use to prevent accidental needlesticks and cuts.
What is the sharps safety mechanism?
This system is used to analyze and report on harm events after they occur in a department.
What is a CIRAS Review?
When working at a computer, the top of your monitor should generally be positioned at approximately this height.
What is at or slightly below eye level?
This non-powered mobile active sit-to-stand transfer aid can be found on the floor to assist moving patients safely between seated positions.
What is a Sera Stedy?
When ascending or descending stairs, employees should use this safety feature to maintain balance and reduce the risk of slips, trips, and falls.
Correct Response: What is a handrail?
Employees can find information about chemical hazards, required PPE, and first-aid measures in this document.
What is a Safety Data Sheet (SDS)?
This type of harm event should be addressed by Employee Health or the ED if it happens after hours. They follow our local process and make sure employees get follow up care.
What is a Blood Borne Pathogen Exposure?
This ergonomic term describes the area between your mid-thigh and mid-chest, close to your body, where lifting and handling objects places the least strain on your muscles and joints.
What is the Power Zone?
Before using a patient lift, employees must verify these two weight-related factors to ensure the equipment can safely accommodate the patient.
What are the patient's weight and the safe working load of the lift and sling?
A rolling chair should never be used as a substitute for this piece of equipment when retrieving supplies from an elevated shelf.
What is an approved step stool or ladder?
This weight range made up the highest category of SPH related harm coming in at 32% for Baldwin Park in 2026.
What is 100-199 pounds?
This process should be followed when someone reports an injury after 9 PM, on weekends or on holidays.
What is the after-hour process?
This ergonomic principle focuses on modifying equipment, workstations, and processes to accommodate the employee rather than forcing the employee to adapt to the task.
What is fitting the job to the worker?
This low-friction device helps reduce the physical force required to reposition a patient in bed.
What is a slide sheet?
These installations are located on every floor by the staff elevators. It includes towels, pop ups, and gives instructions for how to contact EVS.
This medical center was the only one to exceed the Regional accepted claims performance goal.
What is Baldwin Park Medical Center?
Elimination, substitution, engineering controls, administrative controls, and PPE are the five levels of this framework used to reduce workplace hazards.
What is the Hierarchy of Controls?