How a Health Care Company Made Yearly Ergonomic Training Engaging While Reducing Sprains and Strains

Asha Roy, Program Manager for Safe Patient Handling and Mobility, and Paul Power, Director of Operations for the Workforce Safety Department, work for Northwell Health System, which is the largest health care system in New York State. They discuss how they have implemented an innovative and fun way to do refresher training for patient handling which drastically reduced musculoskeletal injuries. They also share how the principles learned can be implemented into any manual handling setting to reduce sprains and strains.