Safety Solutions Seminar

The Safety Solutions Seminar was held on Thursday 31 July 2008 for workers in the health and aged care sector.

Guest speakers included representatives from the Health and Community Services Industry Sector Standing Committee, Workplace Health and Safety Queensland, Queensland Health, Spiritus and the Queensland Ambulance Service.

Presentations used at the seminar are available for download below.

Influencing OHS performance in the health and community sector (PDF, 119 KB) - Steve Campbell and Tammy Roberts, Injury Prevention and Management Unit, Workplace Health and Safety Queensland, Department of Employment and Industrial Relations

Reducing the risk of violence when managing dementia patients (PDF, 190 KB) - Chris Gork, Care Standards Coordinator, Spiritus

Handling bariatric patients and other people handling training initiatives for paramedics (PDF, 1080 KB)- Dennis C Jess ASM, Director of Education, Queensland Ambulance Service

Manual handling in laundries (PDF, 906 KB) - Jennie McCormick, Healthcare Ergonomics Team, Queensland Health

Healthcare ergonomic initiative for the management of orthopaedic loan sets in CSSD (PDF, 817 KB) - Julia Watson, Principal Inspector (Ergonomics), Workplace Health and Safety Queensland, Department of Employment and Industrial Relations

Preliminary campaign findings - National hospital intervention and compliance campaign (PDF, 118 KB) - Nita Maynard, Project Manager, Workplace Health and Safety Queensland, Department of Employment and Industrial Relations

We see enough cuts and bruises (PDF, 783 KB) - Garth Richards, Principal OH&S Consultant, Occupational Violence Prevention, Queensland Health