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This course covers the following information:
Walking and Working Surfaces in Healthcare Environments: for Office and Maintenance Personnel: The Fundamentals of Safe Surfaces addresses:
- How to recognize conditions that increase the risk of slips, trips and falls on walking and working surfaces.
- How good housekeeping and "guarding" can reduce these hazards.
- The importance of knowing a floor's "load rating limit".
Walking and Working Surfaces in Healthcare Environments: for Office and Maintenance Personnel: Walkways and Floors addresses:
- How clearly marked aisles and passageways can help prevent accidents.
- The hazards posed by openings in floors and walls, "catwalks" and open-sided platforms.
- How railings and toeboards can be used to mitigate these hazards.
Walking and Working Surfaces in Healthcare Environments: for Office and Maintenance Personnel: Stairs and Fixed Ladders addresses:
- How unsafe behavior can cause accidents on stairways.
- How uniformity, strength and "guarding" of stairways can reduce slip, trip and fall risks.
- How personal fall protection can help to mitigate a fall from a fixed ladder.
Walking and Working Surfaces in Healthcare Environments: for Office and Maintenance Personnel: Portable Ladders addresses:
- How to properly inspect and set up a portable ladder.
- The danger of using portable ladders near power lines or energized equipment.
- How to use the "four-to-one ratio" to determine a safe and stable ladder set-up angle.