Our research promotes practices, products, and policies that address occupational safety, environmental safety, and patient safety in both home care and hospitals.
What's New
The Safe Home Care Project has developed a series of fact sheets for the Home Care workforce on managing COVID-19 exposure risks as well as safer practices related to the use of cleaning and disinfecting products - Safe Home Care Fact Sheets
- A printable trifold brochure called Safe Home Care During COVID-19: Tips for Personal Care Attendants (PCAs), Caregivers and Consumers is now available in English and Spanish:
This brochure includes information on recognizing COVID-19 symptoms, a symptom checklist and ways to avoid spreading the COVID-19 virus and other germs that can cause disease.
- The Safe Home Care Project and the Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety surveyed Massachusetts home care agencies to assess the impact of COVID-19 in the early phase of the pandemic, March-June, 2020.
- The goals of our Safe Home Care research, funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), include: Producing guidance for clients and families on safe home care practices; Developing safety tools and techniques that can be introduced to clients when they are assessed for home care visits; Preventing infection and other health and safety hazards; Evaluating whether new safety tools are beneficial to aides, clients and home care partners - Researcher to Take on Challenge of Home Care Safety for Workers, Patients Press Release