Engineering Controls in Healthcare

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) conducts research on the control of exposure to infectious aerosols and hazardous drugs in healthcare environments. Research includes: 1. Expedient Airborne Infection Isolation: Public health officials require practical strategies for quickly isolating infectious aerosols during outbreaks or epidemics. NIOSH developed several flexible control solutions to protect patients and workers in healthcare settings, including emergency medical shelters. NIOSH also developed a portable self-contained unit operating off solar or wind in austere environments. 2. Airborne Isolation Protection in Ambulance Modules: NIOSH is investigating enhanced protection for ambulance medical workers and drivers against airborne and surface exposures. There are currently limited requirements to protect these workers from airborne and surface infectious exposures. 3. Computational Fluid Dynamics and Patient Rooms: NIOSH joined researchers from the University of Cincinnati to develop Computational Fluid Dynamics models of traditional patient rooms. This collaborative research effort will produce future guidance and recommendations for patient room design. 4. Hazardous Drugs: NIOSH is leading an initiative to educate healthcare workers on the dangers of nontherapeutic exposure to hazardous drugs. NIOSH will identify and provide guidance to reduce the potential for exposures to occur. NIOSH engineers are researching, identifying, and developing best practices in engineering control design, selection, and evaluation. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Aerosols Air Pollutants, Occupational Biopharmaceutics Communicable Disease Control Communicable Diseases Emergency Responders Engineering Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Occupational Health Particulate Matter Safety

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• Keywords:
  Aerosol-particles Airborne-particles Control-technology Disease-control Disease-transmission Emergency-responders Engineering-controls Health-care-facilities Infection-control Infectious-diseases Paramedical-services Pharmaceuticals

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• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB2012177
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DART - Division of Applied Research and Technology ; R2P - Research 2 Practice
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20041794
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2012-177, 2012 Sep; :1
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c0c27ae2eb4e6dd7762d1abe8d77462c174f48b19ada759f1ba9dff301f94f1d381b973532a540b77d57eb72382ff98f5589e3b9ee0bd2a76cd3394e7c8eb354
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/210031/cdc_210031_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 1.06 MB ]