For providing patients with more safety and better care, California labor laws AB 1136 code is released to improve existing labor laws in California and making it better for patients when it comes to health care. At time of New Year, one can expect modifications in the policy which aims at improving the way patients are taken care of and how health staff takes care of the patient when they have to handle, carry or move the patient to a new place. All kinds of modifications come up with Section 6403.5 which asks health care centers to set up a plan for injury prevention. From 2012, changes will become effective and anyone can go through amendments by referring Hospital Patient and Health Care Worker Injury Protection Act.

Be it any California health care center, employer always make sure that health staff of the center handles patients properly. Discussing on patient handling technique is critical and California centers are good at offering best services. Programs must get close to ways of relocating patients with staff and not through any kind of automated devices. Employees of health care should be given proper teaching on how to use automated devices and its best not to rely on these devices. In addition to it, employers of all health care centers must offer training to their employees when it comes to lifting techniques.

Labor laws needed a modification as cases against the care of patients were filed by their relatives who found their dear ones not offered with extreme care. Many staff workers in different health care centers didn’t like lifting or handling patients manually or through other physical means even when there were emergency cases. Therefore, health care authorities found it important to make some modifications in labor laws offering benefits to any patient. Moreover, it lets employees of health care to decide for their own good and prevent themselves from getting into any kind of injury.

Changes which were made in labor laws of California helped in achieving objectives set by authorities to bring laws in favor of employees as well as patients. On top of that, it creates a better work culture for health care employees. In order to treat patients of your health care in the best possible way, it is necessary to treat employees who are there to take care of patients. If anyone is found guilty for breaking any kind of California labor laws after modification being effective would have to face legal actions against him/her.