Best practices -- Modified door-thresholds

Health care industry

Modified door thresholds allow easy, direct access to adjoining rooms

To eliminate the need for transferring residents to an additional lift and to better use the existing ceiling-mounted lift system, door thresholds were modified to allow the lift's tracks to access adjoining rooms.

Door thresholds were modified to allow a ceiling-mounted lift system to easily access other rooms.

Disclaimer:  Photographs of commercially available products posted on this site are for reference purposes only and do not imply any endorsement by the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry. The best-practices ideas have been reviewed and posted solely at the discretion of the department and should only be considered as possible examples for reducing risk-factors, based on existing ergonomics guidelines. Employers and employees need to work together to identify and control ergonomics risk-factors within the workplace to better ensure changes made to a work process will be effective in reducing risk-factors and maintaining work efficiency.