The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is inspecting and citing health care organizations in order to prevent employee injuries caused by patient handling.

https://www.osha.gov/dsg/hospitals/patient_handling.html

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has researched safe patient handling and recommended lifting limits that apply to patient handling.

http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/safepatient/default.html

Joint Commission has published a monograph that discusses the link between patient safety and worker safety and the need to improve both.

http://www.jointcommission.org/assets/1/18/TJC-ImprovingPatientAndWorkerSafety-Monograph.pdf.

The American Nurses Association (ANA) published Interprofessional National Standards on Safe Patient Handling and Mobility Across the Care Continuum.

https://www.nursingworld.org/nurses-books/safe-patient-handling-and-mobility-interprofessional-national-standards-ac/

https://www.nursingworld.org/search/?q=safe+patient+handling+mobility

The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) has a position supporting safe patient handling and participated in developing the ANA standards.

http://www.apta.org/SafePatientHandling/

The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) has published algorithms and a tool kit for safe patient handling.

http://go.va.gov/iisi

The National Association of Orthopaedic Nurses (NAON) has published algorithms and a position statement for safe patient handling.

http://www.orthonurse.org/p/bl/et/blogaid=926

Internal copy of algorithms at http://vaww.ceosh.med.va.gov/01HP/02HP_Guidebooks/03_Collections/04HP_ergonomics/NAONAlgorithms.pdf

The Association of Rehabilitation Nurses (ARN) collaborated with APTA and the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) to create a safe patient handling toolkit.

https://rehabnurse.org/resources/sph-toolkit

The Facility Guidelines Institute (FGI) includes safe patient handling in their requirements for health care facility design and has published a white paper on Patient Handling and Movement Assessments.

http://www.fgiguidelines.org/resource/patient-handling-and-movement-assessments/

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has published a Technical Report on manual handling of people in the healthcare sector (ISO TR 12296) and a standard for Hoists for requirements and test methods for the transfer of disabled persons (ISO 10535).

Eleven states (California, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas, and Washington with a resolution from Hawaii) have enacted laws or regulations relating to safe patient handling.

The Association of Safe Patient Handling Professionals (ASPHP) and American Association for Safe Patient Handling and Movement (AASPHM) provide education, research and certification opportunities for safe patient handling and mobility.

http://www.asphp.org/

http://aasphm.org/