Fourth conference on occupational hazards to health care workers, May 15-17, 1989, Seattle, Washington.

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  The proceedings of a conference on occupational hazards to health care workers were presented. This conference included programs addressing the development of hospital health and safety programs, managing, scheduling, and coping with shift work, current exposures to health care workers, safety issues, medical waste management, hazard communication, protecting health care workers from blood borne diseases, protective equipment and clothing, and needlestick injuries. Subtopics discussed within the programs included a labor/management approach to work environment issues, the role of the union, why managers should be interested in health and safety, the role of FOCUS groups in health and safety programs, NIOSH guidelines and field investigations regarding occupational exposures, antineoplastic drug handlers, the toxicity of glutaraldehyde (111308), medical devices, patient violence, waste management, evaluation of hazard communication programs, proposed OSHA standards for the protection of health care workers from blood borne diseases, legal aspects of worker protection, the ethics of "duty to treat", the human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis, gloves, protective clothing and devices, needlesticks in nursing homes and physicians' offices, causes and prevention of needlestick injuries, and needlestick preventive devices. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Communicable Diseases Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Health Personnel Needlestick Injuries Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Shift Work Schedule Staff Development Violence Viral Diseases Waste Management Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Occupational-hazards; Health-care-personnel; Shift-work; Occupational-exposure; Infectious-diseases; AIDS-virus; Viral-infections; Needlestick-injuries; Workplace-violence; Protective-equipment; Occupational-health-programs; Waste-disposal; Medical-equipment; Needlestick-injuries
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings ; Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 10 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health ; Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America ; North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-349
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00237252
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1989 May; :1-349
• CAS Registry Number:
  Glutaraldehyde (CAS RN 111-30-8) ; Glutaraldehyde (CAS RN 111-30-8)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1989
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Northwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety, University of Washington, Seattle, Co-sponsored by NIOSH, 349 pages, 170 references
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/243572/cdc_243572_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]