Safe patient handling and movement
This is Safe patient handling and movement- A research-based guide for a better work environment!
Who is the guide directed at?
Workplaces within:
- Healthcare
- Dental care
- Public and private care- including home nursing, domestic services and personal assistance.
The purpose of the guide is to describe how employers and employees can work together to ensure safe patient handling and movement.
Download the guide
Download the Research-based Guide for Safe movement of patient handling and movement.
Download the guideAbout Save patient handling and movement
This is how the guide is structured
The guide initially addresses the background and important conditions for safe patient handling and movement followed by a practical work process consisting of five steps.
- Start up and establish
- Investigate and analyse
- Identify and assess risks
- Plan and implement actions
- Follow up and evaluate
Five points for safer passenger movements in the moment
To support the assessment of risks in the current movement situation
For guidance in everyday life – poster and quick guide
Along with the guide, there is a printable poster and quick guide for safe movement of people in the moment, which can be used as support in your daily work. Download, print and use in your workplace!
Poster (.pdf) Quick guide (.pdf)
Healthy Workplaces Lighten the Load
In Sweden and in Europe, a campaign called “Healthy Workplaces Lighten the Load” has been carried out during the years 2020-2022. In Sweden, the Swedish Agency for Work Environment Expertice and the Work Environment Agency, together with the labor market partners, chose to invest in the theme “Working with people – safe movement of people”. This guide is part of the effort to contribute to creating safe handlings and movements of people in health care and care.
Note that the guide is originally written for a Swedish context and based on Swedish work environment legislation. Readers should familiar themselves with relevant legislation and regulations pertaining to patient handling and movement in their own country to ensure compliance and best practices.