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 Addressing
Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: A Guide for Primary Care
Providers (Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational
Safety and Health and the Greater Boston Physicians for Social
Responsibility)
 L'Association pour la
Santé et la Sécurité du Travail, Secteur
Affaires Sociales (ASSTSAS) Montreal, Canada
Back
Injury Prevention Guide for Health Care Providers
(Oregon OSHA)
Bloodborne
Pathogens in Healthcare Settings Healthcare personnel are
at risk for occupational exposure to bloodborne pathogens, including
hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and human
immunodefi ciency virus (HIV). Exposures occur through needlesticks
or cuts from other sharp instruments contaminated with an infected
patient's blood or through contact of the eye, nose, mouth,
or skin with a patient's blood. (Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention)
Caring
'till It Hurts: How Nursing Home Work Is Becoming the Most Dangerous
Job in America (Service
Employees International Union)
Control
of Nitrous Oxide During Cryosurgery (U.S. National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health, 1999)
Controlling
Occupational Exposure to Hazardous Drugs (OSHA Technical Manual)
Dentistry (Occupational
Safety and Health Administration)
Ergonomics
in Healthcare (Center for Occupational and Environmental
Medicine, Arnot Ogden Medical Center)
Exposure
To Blood: What Health-Care Workers Need to Know (U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Framework
for a Comprehensive Health and Safety Program in Nursing Homes
(Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
General
X-ray Technologist — General X-ray technologists are
exposed to many different musculoskeletal injury (MSI) risk
factors. This bulletin provides information regarding the typical
musculoskeletal issues faced by these workers and some possible
risk control measures to either eliminate or minimize the MSI
risk. (WorkSafe British Columbia)
Glutaraldehyde: Occupational
Hazards in Hospitals (U.S. National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health, 2001)
Guidelines
for Environmental Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities
Recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices
Advisory Committee (2003)
Guidelines
for Infection Control in Dental Health-Care Settings (Centers
for Disease Control, 2003)
Guideline
for Infection Control in Health Care Personnel (Centers for Disease Control, 1998)
Guidelines
for Preventing Workplace Violence for Health Care and Social
Service Workers (Occupational
Safety and Health Administration, 1998)
Health
Care Facilities
(OSHA guide to hazards and regulations)
Health
Care Workers
(U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health)
Health
Care Workers with Documented and Possible Occupationally Acquired
AIDS/HIV Infection (U.S. Centers for Disease Control)
Healthcare
Workers: Protecting Those Who Protect Our Health (Infection Control
and Hospital Epidemiology)
Hearing on OSHA's Compliance Directive
on Bloodborne Pathogens and the Prevention of Needlestick Injuries,
June 22, 2000 (U.S.
House of Representatives, Committee on Education and the Workforce,
Subcommittee on Workforce Protections)
Hospital
Air Is Sick (Environmental Protection Agency IAQ News,
2000)
Hospital-Based
First Receivers of Victims from Mass Casualty Incidents Involving
the Release of Hazardous Substances, Best Practices (OSHA)
Hospital
Houskeeping Safety and Health (OSHA, 2006)
Immunization
of Health-Care Workers: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee
on Immunization Practices and the Hospital Infection Control
Practices Advisory Committee (U.S. Centers for Disease
Control, 1997)
Latex
Allergy (American Nurses Association)
Needle
Points: An AFSCME Guide to Sharps Safety (American Federation
of State, County and Municipal Employees, 2002)
Nursing
Homes Guidelines: Ergonomics for the Prevention of Musculoskeletal
Disorders (OSHA, 2003)
Nursing
Home Initiative Inspections Policy and Procedures (OSHA,
1998)
Nursing
Home Nurse International Hazard Datasheet (International
Labour Organization)
Nursing
Staff Requirements and the Quality of Nursing Home Care (California Department of Health
Services, 2001)
Occupational
Health and Safety for the Healthcare Workforce(Setting
Healthcare's Environmental Agenda conference, 2000)
Preventing
Allergic Reactions to Natural Rubber Latex in the Workplace
(U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health,
1997)
Preventing
Occupational Exposures to Antineoplastic and other Hazardous
Drugs in Healthcare Settings (U.S. National Institute
for Occupational Safety and Health, 2004)
Safe
Needles Save Lives (American Nurses Association)
Safe
Patient Handling and Movement (Veterans' Health Administration
Patient Safety Center)
Safer
Needles (Service Employees International Union, 2002)
Salud
ocupacional para proveedores de salud (U.S. National
Library of Medicine, 2004)
Securing
Metal Catheters (Occupational Safety and Health Administration,
2004)
Selected
Cost and Benefit Implications of Needlestick Prevention Devices
for Hospitals (U.S. General
Accounting Office, November 2000)
Some Antiviral
and Antineoplastic Drugs, and Other Pharmaceutical Agents
Aciclovir, Zidovudine, Zalcitabine, Didanosine, Etoposide,
Teniposide, Mitoxantrone, Amsacrine, Hydroxyurea, Phenolphthalein,
Vitamin K substances (International Agency for Research on Cancer,
2000)
Surveillance
of Health Care Workers with HIV/AIDS (U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2001)
TB
Respiratory Protection Program in Health Care Facilities
(U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health,
1999)
Training
for Development of Innovative Control Technologies Project
(San Francisco General Hospital)
Transmission
of Influenza: Implications for Control in Health Care Settings
(Healthcare
Epidemiology, 2003)
Violence:
Occupational Hazards in Hospitals (National Institute
for Occupational Safety and Health, 2002)
Work-Related
Stress in Nursing (International Labour Organization) |
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Healthcare Industry and Safe Needles news |
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Nurses
Say Health and Safety Concerns Play Major Role in Employment
Decisions — America's registered nurses report that
health and safety concerns play a major role in their decisions
to remain in the profession, according to findings from an on-line
health and safety survey conducted on NursingWorld.org -- the
official Web site of the American Nurses Association (ANA). In
the survey, 88 percent of nurses reported that health and safety
concerns influence their decisions to continue working in the
field of nursing and the kind of nursing work they choose to
perform. Over 70 percent of nurses cited the acute and chronic
effects of stress and overwork as one of their top three health
and safety concerns. — American Nurses Association press
release, September 7, 2001
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