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Hospital Hazards

EnviroAnalysis Incorporated-Hospital Safety Management Programs - Hospitals and health care facilities in general are subject to a multitude of hazards not found in other industries.
GLUTARALDEHYDE, Occupational Hazardsin Hospitals - DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2001-115. May 2001
Healthcare Workers: Protecting Those Who Protect Our Health - Jane Lipscomb, RN, PhD; Linda Rosenstock, MD, MPH. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.Journal.
Hospital eTool: occupational health and safety hazards - The OSH Act of 1970 strives to "assure safe and healthful working conditions" for today's workers, and mandates that employers provide a safe work environment for employees. Hospitals and personal care facilities employ approximately 1.6 million workers at 21,000 work sites. U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety & Health Administration.
Hospital Workers | Vhihealthe - special report on the safety hazards of hospital workers.
Hospitals learn together how to battle hazards - 2002-07-29 - A man showed up at a Central Valley hospital after he tried to end his life by guzzling a jug of the agricultural pesticide malathion.
Irish Examiner - 2003/08/25: Hospital health hazards exposed - By Harry McGee, Political Editor. THE Government’s health funding policies have again come under attack following the exposure of a litany of vital equipment failures and hygiene problems in Irish hospitals.
Journal of Hospital Infection - Infection hazards of ITUs, SCBUs, and other hospital departments; Audit of hospital infection and infection control programmes.
NIOSH/Health Care Workers Guidelines/Chap1 - Health care facilities present workers with a myriad of potential health and safety hazards. Compared with the total civilian workforce, hospital workers have a greater percentage of workers’ compensation claims for sprains and strains, infectious and parasitic diseases, dermatitis, hepatitis, mental disorders, eye diseases, influenza, and toxic hepatitis.
Nursing Home eTool, Occupational Hazards in Long Term Care - Today nursing homes and personal care facilities employ approximately 1.8 million workers at 21,000 work sites. The nursing home industry injury incident rate is 13.9 injuries and illnesses per 100 full-time workers. U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety & Health Administration.
Occupational Hazards for Hospital Workers - "If you've ever wondered how people can manage to work with the sick and always stay healthy themselves, the answer is that they can't." — Jeanne Stellman, Women's Work, Women's Health (1977)
Occupational hazards in the hospital environment - Hospitals have long been considered places of diagnosis and treatment rather than workplaces. However, hospitals are also complex structures with a high number of employees who cover more than a hundred different duties and are exposed to many risks. Health risks prevention is based on their knowledge. In fact, an adequate information may modify health workers' behaviour. (Also in Italian Text)
OHS Hazards - Victorian Hospital Industrial Association - This is the process of establishing what hazards are present in the workplace usually by conducting an inspection of the workplace and by looking at injury records.
OSHA TECHNICAL MANUAL - SECTION VI: CHAPTER 1 - The hazards of exposure to waste, anesthetic gases, cytotoxic drugs, and blood-borne diseases such as hepatitis and HIV/AIDS are the subject of NIOSH criteria documents and OSHA policy statements.
Preventing Allergic Reactions to Natural Rubber Latex in the Workplace - June 1997 DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 97-135. Workers exposed to latex gloves and other products containing natural rubber latex may develop allergic reactions such as skin rashes; hives; nasal, eye, or sinus symptoms; asthma; and (rarely) shock.
Preventing Needlestick Injuries in Healthcare Settings - November 1999 DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2000-108. Health care workers who use or may be exposed to needles are at increased risk of needlestick injury. Such injuries can lead to serious or fatal infections with bloodborne pathogens such as hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
Victorian Hospital Occupational Health and Safety Web Site – Documents in the Resource Library are for information only, they do not in any way represent advice or guidelines from the Victorian State Government. The documents represent practice in the contributing organisation at the time of publication.

Violence

Workplace Violence DHHS (NIOSH) Pub No. 2002-101 – (CDC) They are exposed to many safety and health hazards, including violence. Recent data indicate that hospital workers are at high risk for experiencing violence.

Healthcare Workers: Protecting Those Who Protect Our Health - Jane Lipscomb, RN, PhD; Linda Rosenstock, MD, MPH. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.Journal.