dc.description.abstract | Employees of medical services have higher occupational exposure to health risk due to their unique work environment. In order to understand the status and trends of occupational hazards in hospitals, health and safety hazards are divided into five risk categories, including chemical, biological, physical, human engineering and others. Using a regional hospital with 500 occupational accidents from 2004 to 2013 as a case study, accidents were characterized by seniority, potential hazards, title, occupational hazard category, sex, occupational injury factor, occurred time, location and situation for analysis. The results obtained are then compared with other hospitals and industries for possible disaster countermeasures. The study found that biological hazard is of the largest contributor, accounting for 61.6% of total hazard. The largest contribution is from needle injury, accounting for 57.0% of total hazard. In particular, the highest incidence rates occur during afternoon. The most common cases are related to nursing staff during blood samples or injection when the needle is withdrawn from the patient followed by physicians helping patients with treatment or surgery in the operating room. Overall, occupational hazard analysis indicates that occurances happen to women is higher than that to men by 11%. The highest occurance is to medical technicians, however, executives suffer high accident rates at work and traffic accidents to work especially in the morning. It also indicates that the rate of accidents is reduced with increasing seniority. In comparison with other sectors, hospitals are of lower accident rates, because no dangerous machinery is involved. This study found that personal unsafe behavior contributed the most to accidents. At this point there is still a long way to go to achieve the goal of zero accident, however, by raising awareness we can start the process of reducing occupational accients in hospitals. | en_US |