Occupational Hazard

Huy J; PalermoT; Storey, Eileen

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Occupational Hazard

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2009/03/31
By Huy J ; PalermoT ; Storey, Eileen ; ...

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Huy J ; PalermoT ; Storey, Eileen ; Huy J ; PalermoT ; Storey, Eileen
Description:

Exposures to blood and other body fluids occur across a wide variety of occupations. Preventing these exposures is one important step in ensuring a safe working environment for healthcare providers and ancillary occupations, and complements healthcare systems' patient safety and infection control efforts. Combining strategies for achieving patient safety and healthcare worker safety ultimately lead to quality healthcare, and quality patient care is the utmost goal of healthcare delivery systems. It is equally important for healthcare personnel to be safe, and healthcare delivery systems should be aware of the practices that promote patient and worker safety. Reducing the transmission of infections from patients to healthcare personnel and from personnel to patients is another component of a safe and healthy healthcare environment. [Description provided by NIOSH]
Subjects:

Biological Factors Biological Products Blood Blood-Borne Pathogens Body Fluids Communicable Diseases Emergency Responders Environmental Monitoring Hazardous Substances Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Health Personnel Health Promotion Hematologic Diseases Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Staff Development Workplace
Keywords:

Biohazards Biological-effects Biological-factors Biological-material Biological-transport Bloodborne-pathogens Body-fluids Emergency-responders Emergency-treatment Exposure-assessment Exposure-levels Exposure-limits Health-care-facilities Health-care-personnel Health-hazards Health-programs Health-science-personnel Health-services Infection-control Infectious-diseases Nurses Nursing Occupational-accidents Occupational-exposure Occupational-hazards Occupational-health Occupational-health-nursing Occupational-health-programs Occupational-health-services Occupational-safety-programs Physical-reactions Physicians Risk-factors Work-environment Work-performance Work-practices Worker-health Workplace-studies
Document Type:

Text
Genre:

Newsletter ; Lay Publication ; Newsletter ; Lay Publication
Place as Subject:

Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
CIO:

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
Division:

R2P - Research 2 Practice ; DRDS - Division of Respiratory Disease Studies ; R2P - Research 2 Practice ; DRDS - Division of Respiratory Disease Studies
Topic:

Workplace Safety & Health ; Workplace Safety & Health
Location:

North America ; North America
Pages in Document:

1-5
NIOSHTIC Number:

nn:20035457
Citation:

Practical Patient Care 2009 Mar; :1-5
Federal Fiscal Year:

2009
Peer Reviewed:

False
Source Full Name:

Practical Patient Care
Collection(s):

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Main Document Checksum:

urn:sha-512:f7ae3b590b8aeb426ae3293ec24a9a2a76483445a055e37dc8141a66cbc73c63fe0b265a5f394207e280fc94e56f949388aeb09b405a517370cb038000af036d
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https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/187306/cdc_187306_DS1.pdf
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[PDF - 609.27 KB ]

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