[MCOH-EH] Physical Demands Requirements for HCWs

[David S. Cockrum]

Good morning!

As Dartmouth Health works to "harmonize" various administrative aspects across the system, in which 7 different inpatient facilities are now under a single HR system (and working on a single Employee Health function - ongoing battle!), one of the challenging areas is Job Descriptions. Our Employee Health team, along with the Environmental Health and Safety team, has been tasked with trying to bring some commonality to the Physical Demands (PD) portion of the JDs.

I was wondering if any our experts could point me to a good reference for PDs for various healthcare jobs? I have the broad definitions from DoL/SSA (sedentary, light, medium, heavy, very heavy), we're trying to figure out how we can apply these across the system for various job categories. For example, is an ICU RN at the academic center the same as an ambulatory RN at a smaller clinic facility? I really don't think that's the case, but where is the line drawn for RNs (as just one example)?What references exist that can help us understand how to differentiate these kinds of variations?

Any thoughts or advice would be appreciated!

David

David S. Cockrum, MD, MPH
He/Him/His
Medical Director & Section Chief
Occupational & Environmental Medicine
Department of Medicine
Tel (603) 653-3881 | Fax (603) 650-0930
Dartmouth-Health.org

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
[cid:image001.png at 01DC497B.F51E7010]<https://www.dartmouth-health.org/>     [cid:image002.png at 01DC497B.F51E7010]



IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING THIS ELECTRONIC MESSAGE:

This message is intended for the use of the person to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and protected from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, your use of this message for any purpose is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please delete the message and notify the sender so that we may correct our records.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://mylist.net/archives/mcoh-eh/attachments/20251030/ad2e5074/attachment-0001.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image001.png
Type: image/png
Size: 39708 bytes
Desc: image001.png
URL: <https://mylist.net/archives/mcoh-eh/attachments/20251030/ad2e5074/attachment-0002.png>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image002.png
Type: image/png
Size: 2071 bytes
Desc: image002.png
URL: <https://mylist.net/archives/mcoh-eh/attachments/20251030/ad2e5074/attachment-0003.png>