Seminar Protecting Workers in Health Care Facilities
September 24, 2008 by admin
Filed under Hospital Safety, Seminar Health and Safety
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 suffering from sprains and strains, infectious and parasitic diseases, dermatitis, hepatitis, mental disorders, eye diseases, influenza, and toxic hepatitis. Although much of the information here was obtained from studies conducted in hospitals, it can also be applied to health care workers in other settings, including outpatient clinics, nursing homes, acute care centers, physicians’ and dentists’ office, blood banks, and private residences.
OBJECTIVES
The specific objectives of this course were enable you to :
o Understand factors that influence the health and safety in the health care facilities.
o Prevent the health care workers from accidents and Occupational Illness;
o Understand to implement Occupational Health Management Programme in the health care facilities;
o Understand how to avoid nosocomial infection (“hospital acquired infection”) in the health care facilities;
o Identify methods to decrease medical errors (patient safety);
o Promote education and training for health care workers to improve workplace health.
