Topic Overview: Home Care

Ensure a Safe Working Environment Outside of the Clinic for Your Home Care Staff and Avoid Claims

As health care professionals, you have a responsibility to your patients, your co-workers and yourselves to keep safety top of mind with every action you take. The potential risks to your own safety can come in many forms:

• Safe patient handling and mobility
• Combative patients
• Repetitive motion injuries
• Slips, trips and falls
• Occupational diseases
• Manual material handling

No matter your position, you play a vital role in ensuring you and your co-workers follow proper safety protocols in any situation that arises.