Care Volunteer Training

What's a slip, trip and fall?

To slide accidentally causing the person to lose their balance. This is either corrected or causes the person to fall.

Slip

Trip

To stumble accidentally, often over an obstacle causing the person to lose their balance. This is either corrected or causes the person to fall.

Fall

An event which results in the person or a body part of the person coming to rest inadvertently on the ground or other surface lower than the person, whether or not an injury is sustained.

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