Prevention efforts for MSIs should be directed to non-patient care occupations as well and consider their occupation-specific causes and activities.

Full-time direct patient care occupations have greater risk of injury compared to part-time and casual workers within the health care sector.

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Finding from this study support the use of near miss and minor injury data as potential outcome measures for injury prevention programs.

Reducing work-related serious fall injuries would be expected to bring about significant benefits in terms of reduced pain and suffering, improved workplace productivity, reduced absenteeism and reduced compensation costs.