Scientific specialist

Leena Tamminen-Peter, PhD is an Occupational Physiotherapist and teacher of Nursing Science. As a Specialized Research Scientist at Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, she has worked for over three decades in ergonomics and prevention, participating in several intervention studies in the health care sector and developed the teaching of ergonomics in social and health care education.

She is the author of the Finnish guide book for Patient Handling and the Teacher’s Manual. As a member of the writing group she contributed to ISO Technical Report 12296 “Manual handling of people in the health care sector”.
Her ergonomic teaching scheme of patient-handling in health care education is published as the

‘Ergonomic patient handling card®’ -scheme.

Poster

Abbreviations: #ADL #ADLs Activitie(s) of daily living | #ErgocareBank ErgocareBank -project | #EESPHM Economic Ergonomic Safe Patient Handling Movement / Mobility | #EPH Ergonomisches Patienten Handling | #ESHC Ergonomic Single Handed Care | #ESHSPHM Ergonomic Single Handed Safe Patient Handling Movement / Mobility | #MSD Musculoskeletal Disorders | #SHC Single Handed Care | #EcBSPHM ErgocareBank Safe Patient Handling Movement