2022 New York Laws
PBH - Public Health
Article 29-D - Health Information and Quality Improvement
Title 1-A - Safe Patient Handling
2997-H - Definitions.

§ 2997-h. Definitions. For the purposes of this title:
1.  "Health  care  facility" shall mean general hospitals, residential
  health care facilities, diagnostic and treatment  centers,  and  clinics
  licensed  pursuant  to  article twenty-eight of this chapter, facilities
  which provide health care services and are licensed or operated pursuant
  to article eight  of  the  education  law,  article  nineteen-G  of  the
  executive  law  or the correction law, and hospitals and schools defined
  in section 1.03 of the mental hygiene law.
2. "Nurse" shall mean a registered professional nurse  or  a  licensed
  practical  nurse  as  defined  by article one hundred thirty-nine of the
  education law.
3. "Direct care worker" shall mean  any  employee  of  a  health  care
  facility  who  is responsible for patient handling or patient assessment
  as a regular or incidental part of his or her employment, including  any
  licensed or unlicensed health care worker.
4.  "Employee  representative"  shall mean the recognized or certified
  collective bargaining agent for nurses  or  direct  care  workers  of  a
  health care facility.
5. "Safe patient handling" shall mean the use of engineering controls,
  lifting  and transfer aids, or assistive devices by staff to perform the
  acts of lifting, transferring and repositioning health care patients and
  residents.
6. "Musculoskeletal disorders" shall mean conditions that involve  the
  nerves, tendons, muscles and supporting structures of the body.