Moving or bringing something from a lower level to a higher one. The concept encompasses biomechanic stresses resulting from work done in transferring objects from one plane to another as well as the effects of varying techniques of patient handling and transfer.
    

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How accidents happen : when lifting... when carrying... and remember / prepared for the Ministry of Labour and National Service by the Central Office of Information.

Lifting

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Specification of James Hearn : apparatus for raising patients in their beds, &c.

Do you raise the dust? : bin lifting for refuse collectors.

Whatever your job look after your back : Better Backs campaign pack / Health and Safety Executive, LACORS.

How to lift, move, & carry things safely / Business & Legal Reports, Inc.

Lifting, shifting, moving : preventing and managing back pain at work / BackCare.