Aziz B
Nurs Stand. 1992;7(12):25-9. doi: 10.7748/ns.7.12.25.s45.
Injuries associated with manual handling operations account for most workplace injuries reported to the Health and Safety Executive and local authorities. In the health care services, they account for almost 50 per cent of all injuries reported under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RlDDOR) of 1985 (1). This article examines how proposed legislation may be applied to make the industry safer, drawing on work being carried out by some health authorities and organisations such as the Back Pain Association and WING (The Work-Injured Nurses Group of the Royal College of Nursing). The author draws on EC directives, and on consultative documents on the proposed regulations issued by the Health and Safety Executive (2), as well as draft guidance issued by the Working Party of the Health and Safety Commission's Health Services Advisory Committee (1).
向健康与安全执行局及地方当局报告的大多数工作场所受伤案例都与人工搬运操作相关。在医疗服务领域，根据1985年《伤害、疾病及危险事件报告条例》（RlDDOR）报告的所有伤害中，此类伤害几乎占50%（1）。本文借鉴一些卫生当局以及诸如背痛协会和WING（皇家护理学院工伤护士小组）等组织正在开展的工作，探讨拟议的立法如何应用于使该行业更安全。作者借鉴了欧盟指令、健康与安全执行局发布的关于拟议法规的咨询文件（2），以及健康与安全委员会卫生服务咨询委员会工作组发布的指导草案（1）。
