The Role Of Occupational Safety And Health (OSH) In Hazard Management In Health Sectors

The Role Of Occupational Safety And Health (OSH) In Hazard Management In Health Sectors

Chapter One

Preface

Background Of Study

It’scounter-intuitive that the health care assiduity, whose charge is the care of the sick, is itself a “ high- hazard ” assiduity for the workers it employs.

A significant array of hazards is posed by the sector, with birth agents and contagious conditions the most extensively honored. Indeed, similar” health care – acquired” infections in cases, other unintended crimes, similar as drug overdoses, and the given side goods of dangerous treatments have lately spawned the largely visible” patient safety movement.

Although precluding exposure to contagious agents and musculoskeletal injuries performing from patient lifting have been the primary focus of hand safety programs, the chemical hazards in health care have been more sluggishly honored. These include new agents, some of which are unique to health care similar as sterilants, germicidal agents, and medicinals including the largely poisonous anticancer medicines. numerous of these medicines are themselves cancer- causing or poisonous to mortal reduplication and have been the subject of environmental monitoring juggernauts in recent times, showing wide work- area impurity(T.H. Connor et al 2006) In the environment of this largely complex and dangerous work terrain, particular challenges arise in pursuing protections for health care workers in this unique employment sector. impulses within the health care assiduity and the safety and health community itself machinate to limit both the mindfulness of hazards that do live and the successful operation of classical approaches used to assure safe jobs.(M.A. McDiarmid 2006) motive, Plant- related health impairments, injuries and ails in the health sector cause great mortal suffering and dodge high costs, both for those affected and the assiduity as a whole. Hence there’s need for abridging and effectively sure the operation of similar health care hazards through Occupational health and safety measures.

In 1950, the Joint ILO/ WHO Committee on Occupational Health stated that “ Occupational health should aim at the creation and conservation of the loftiest degree of physical, internal and social well- being of workers in all occupations; the forestallment amongst workers of departures from health caused by their working conditions; the protection of workers in their employment from pitfalls performing from factors adverse to health; the placing and conservation of the worker in an occupational terrain acclimated to his physiological and cerebral capabilities ”. In summary “ the adaption of work to man, and of each man to his job. ”

Occupational health and safety measures and health creation in workplaces are aimed at precluding these. But, in addition to guarding workers from detriment. Hence the study will voluminously check the part of Occupational Health and Safety Measures in Hazard Management in health sectors.

Statement Of Problem

Because health care is a unconventional employment setting, imagined by the public to be clean and safe, hazard circumstance is frequently nebulous. Also, due to its unique charge of minding for the sick, tone- preservation actions, which typically aid in guarding workers, are suspended in a culture ofself-less commitment to patient care. Hence workers in the health care sector( which possesses every hazard class) encounters health pitfalls both common to other workers, similar as those related to large installation operations and conservation, including asbestos, heavy essence, and detergents, and those hazards unique to the provision of care to ill cases. still the protection of these caregivers from the notable health threat have been the major concern of applicable authorities across the globe. To this effect, ILO&WHO emphasized on the need for the acceptable perpetration of Occupational health and safety measures. Hence this missive is embarked on to examine the part of OHS measures on hazard operation in the health sector.

Purpose Of The Study

The intent behind this study is to strictly examine the part of OHS measures on hazard operation in the health sector. still this can be attainable through the following specific objects;

1. Enquire if occupational safety and health measures plays any significant part in the operation of hazards in the health sector.

2. probe if the rate to which hazards occurs in health sector has been reduced through the operation of OSH.

3. probe if health care workers creditably abide by the occupational safety and health measures in their workplaces.

Exploration Question

1. Does occupational safety and health measures play any significant part in the operation of hazards in the health sector?

2. Has the rate to which hazards do in health sector been reduced through the operation of OSH?

3. Does health care workers creditably abide by the occupational safety and health measures in their workplaces?

Significance Of The Study

This study will unveil the benefits of clinging to occupational safety and health measures. It’ll also educate health care workers on the possible consequences of not executing the right occupational safety and health measures in their workplaces. Experimenters, scholars and the general public shall all find this study applicable as the issue of hazard operation is a controversial one and must be taken not of.

Compass Of The Study

4. This study is carried out under the frame of examining the part of occupational safety and health in hazard operation in the health sector. More specifically this study will enquire if occupational safety and health measures plays any significant part in the operation of hazards in the health sector; probe if the rate to which hazards occurs in health sector has been reduced through the operation of OSH, and probe if health care workers creditably abide by the occupational safety and health measures in their workplaces. In the note of the below, this study is thus demarcated to Federal Medical Center Asaba, Delta State.

Limitation Of The Study

The main limitation of this exploration, among others, include time constraints, as the pen only had a limited quantum of time to complete it. fiscal constraints and language walls, in particular, were significant limiting factors in this exploration.

Description Of Terms

Health Sector This consists of businesses that give medical services, manufacture medical outfit or medicines, give medical insurance, or else grease the provision of healthcare to cases

Healthcare Worker A healthcare worker is one who delivers care and services to the sick and ailing either directly as croakers and nursers or laterally as helpers, aides, laboratory technicians, or indeed medical waste instructors.

Hazard This is any source of implicit damage, detriment or adverse health goods on commodity or someone.

Hazard Management This is principally a field that involves relating, assaying, and barring implicit hazards.

OSH Occupational safety and health( OSH), also generally appertained to as occupational health and safety( OHS), occupational health, or occupational safety, is a multidisciplinary field concerned with the safety, health, and weal of people at occupation