WPV Webinar Series: Introduction to Safe Patient Handling and Mobility

Date: October 30, 2025, 1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.

Location: Microsoft Teams

Offered in conjunction with our WPV Webinar Series – this 75-minute webinar will focus on safe patient handling and mobility (SPHM).  Musculoskeletal injuries are the most common work-related injury among health care workers and the greatest risk factor for injury is patient handling.  SPHM can reduce the risk of healthcare workers’ injury and benefit patients by facilitating safe and early mobility.

Speaker: Lynda Enos, RN, BSN, MS, COHN-S, CPE, is a is a certified occupational health nurse and certified professional ergonomist with over 30 years of work and consulting experience in industrial and health care ergonomics. She is a principle consultant with HumanFit, LLC in Boring, Oregon.

Ms. Enos is a thought leader, published author and nationally recognized expert on preventing violence and musculoskeletal injuries in healthcare settings.

Her work in healthcare ergonomics spans over 20 years , involving the design, implementation, and management of safe patient handling and mobility (SPHM) and ergonomics programs for numerous hospital systems, clinics, assisted living facilities, and home health and hospice services in the United States. Assistance includes support of SPHM programs for several years per facility.

Ms. Enos was a contributor for the 2013 and 2021 editions of the American Nurses Association (ANA) Interdisciplinary Safe Patient Handling and Mobility Standards. Most recently, Ms. Enos co-authored a white paper “Safe Patient Handling and Mobility (SPHM): A Process to Protect Health Care Workers and Recipients” that was published by the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA), the Association of Safe Patient Handling Professionals (ASPHP), and ANA.

In 2014, Ms. Enos received the Ergonomics Professional of the Year Award from the Puget Sound Human Factors and Ergonomics society and in 2017 she received the Advocacy Award for Safe Patient Handling, awarded by the Tampa VA Research and Education Foundation and the Association of Safe Patient Handling Professionals

Who should attend: Clinical leadership, safety, quality, risk, and patient relations.