Correct use and deliberate misuse of manual lifting devices provided by the nursing home

摘要

As well as being very strong, he was also considered to be something of a bully and would regularly pressure other nursing colleagues in the home to do more work. For example, he would often work the occasional night duty at the nursing home and would expect the nursing assistants to do most of the heavy patient care while he sat in the office and put his feet up.On one particular occasion the nursing assistants came to him for help with lifting a particularly heavy patient. Fred obliged by moving and lifting the patient nearly single-handedly. This request for help was repeated several times until on the fourth occasion when Fred told the staff to use the hoist.