October 9th, 2024 – Understanding the Status, Scope, and Gaps in State SPHM Legislation
[FREE to Members] Presented and recorded live October 9th, 2024 from 2 PM – 3 PM Eastern
Overview
Since 2006, eleven states have enacted laws regulating SPHM maneuvers in the healthcare workspace to reduce injury risk to healthcare workers and patients. However, there is great variation and change over time in the scope, content, and enforcement mechanisms for these regulations. This presentation uses a legal epidemiology policy mapping technique to characterize, categorize, and evaluate the variation in state SPHM legislation, with special attention to the selective coverage of certain industries and working populations. It additionally applies the industrial hygiene concept of the hierarchy of controls to further classify existing SPHM legislation. Using legal epidemiology and industrial hygiene tools to systematically characterize state SPHM legislation clarifies gaps and rooms for expansion to more effectively protect workers and patients from SPHM-related injury, and can aid in evaluation research across states and municipalities.
Objectives – After this session, participants will be able to:
- Track the changes in state SPHM legislation across the country
- Compare the relative scopes of different states’ approaches to SPHM legislation
- Evaluate scopes of SPHM legislation using the Hierarchy of Controls
- Identify gaps and novel areas for growth in SPHM legislation
Meet the Speaker(s)
Adam F. Moskowitz, PhD
Adam F. Moskowitz is an occupational health and safety researcher trained in injury epidemiology and labor policy. His research has focused on occupational injury among precarious workers in the healthcare industry. He is a recent graduate of the NIOSH-supported doctoral training program within the University of Minnesota’s Midwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety, and is currently a Research Associate with University of Iowa’s Healthier Workforce Center of the Midwest.
