Identifying lifting tasks in paramedic work that impose high injury risks

摘要

Paramedics are injured on the job more than workers in many other sectors. Knowing which paramedic tasks are the most physically demanding can help guide injury-prevention efforts. Daniel Armstrong and Steven Fischer from the University of Waterloo, Kathryn Sinden from Lakehead University and Paul Makhoul from Queen's University collaborated to rank-order paramedic lifting tasks based on injury risk metrics in their study titled: "Ranking Stretcher and Backboard Related Paramedic Lifting Tasks Based on Their Biomechanical Demand on the Low Back."