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The CIEHF explore the discipline of human factors and ergonomics in improving patient safety and staff well-being
NHS ergonomist and manual handling adviser Liz Leigh writes about the risks involved in moving and handling patients and advises on how it can be made safe for patients and staff
Liz Leigh, member of the Institute of Ergonomics and a manual handling adviser/clinical ergonomist, Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, continues her look at ergonomics and how it affects healthcare services
Liz Leigh, clinical ergonomist, Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, discusses how ergonomics affects the NHS
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UK Building Regulations highlight toxic gas and smoke from layers of paint built up over multiple redecorations as a major cause of permanent ill health or death in a building fire.
Their concern rose with discovery the flame retardant paints most widely used paint along escape routes have been ones which to this day counter-productively use emission of heavy toxic gas to smother flames which rapidly spread along walls if layers of paint delaminate in a fire.
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