NAHC Comments on ANA Proposed National Safe Patient Handling Standards

The American Nurses Association (ANA) drafted the “National Safe Patient Handling and Mobility Standards” that reflect many of the provisions of the 2000 OSHA Ergonomics final rule that OSHA was required to remove from the Code of Regulations in 2001 as a result of Congressional disapproval. These multi-disciplinary were drafted to provide evidence-based and outcomes-focused…