Stand facing a counter with your upper arms

close to your body, your elbows at approximately

90 degrees of flexion, and your forearms pronated,

placing your hands palm-down on the countertop.

Keeping your hands in contact with the surface of

the countertop, slide your palms on the countertop:

• away from the midline of your body.

• toward the midline of your body.

A. What motion did you perform when your palms

moved away from the midline of your body?

B. What motion did you perform when your palms

moved toward the midline of your body?

C. In what plane were you moving?

D. What is the axis for that plane?

The answer is d because , safety almost always works, to prevent stds and pregnancy

It starts with commitment. the health and safety policy is the commitment by the employer to provide and maintain a safe workplace. the commitment of the workforce is also a necessary component.when the workplace parties sit down to develop an ergonomic approach to patient handling, they will develop terms of reference that set forth how the health and safety committee will function in approaching this problem and reach its goal of reduced injuries.in general, a safe patient handling program will involve the following steps: management approval and commitment to develop and implement a patient handling program.perform a needs analysis.create and standardize patient assessment criteria.develop decision trees to standardize actions.determine which controls are needed to implement specific tasks or patient needs.institute a "no-lift" policy, where possible.