Jenny works in a transitional care facility and provides services for all the people who has been in hospital For acute care And I do not yet well enough to go home Jenny works in the administration department department is Genies department is responsible for ordering and storing stationary for the entire facility the procedure rates as follows safe work procedure deliveries and storage of stationary the administration staff will be responsible for accepting and storing stationary orders procedure when stationary orders are delivered check the content of the delivery to ensure it matches the delivery docket signed the delivery companies documentation immediately move stationary received into the storeroom if the box is too heavy ask another worker to assist with moving the box and pack the stationary and store it as follows small items for every day use store below and middle shelves box of photocopy paper to be split into individual reams and stored on easy to read self remind reminder of boxes of photocopy paper to be restored in boxes on top shelf staff must use the ladder provided to lift the boxes onto the top shelf yesterday Jenny received a large order of stationary she was busy with other work so she asked Martin to help her so she could get enough through it faster one of the boxes was very heavy so Martin said he could move it to the storeroom Jenny offered to help but he said he was fine unfortunately Martin tripped over his own feet when he was moving the box and fell down and small step that led into the storeroom he had to be taken to hospital he had fractured his wrist after all the drama of Martin’s accident died down Jenny decided to put all the stationary away herself she had almost got everything done but the last items were six boxes of photocopy paper Jenny used the ladder as instructed by the procedures to put the boxes on the top shelf by the time she got to the fourth box she was exhausted it was hard walk lifting boxes up a ladder just because was about to put the box on the shelf her foot slipped on the leather step she fell onto the floor thankfully the box did not hit her however Jenny still ended up with cats on her leg from the metal ladder and lots of bruises and very sore angle and arm Nami Naomi is a new manager of the neighbourhood centre she has been on the job for not even two weeks she is horrified that two accidents could occur on the same day and in the same place now now may investigate the incident and when she read the procedure she is shocked at the manual handling process that staff are being advised to carry out she is surprised that there hasn’t been more serious accidents she knows the procedure must be fixed immediately in this case study Revise the procedure so it correctly advised staff how to use safe manual handling procedures. (You may like to refer to the code of practice for manual handling for your state or territory)
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