OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HYGIENE OF HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS IN THE CONTEXT OF HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT SAFETY

Abstract

The aim: This study was conducted to carry out a comprehensive assessment of the occupational safety and health of medical workers. Materials and methods: The study involved a questionnaire survey and full-scale physiological and hygienic research using bibliosemantic, questionnaire, hygienic, and statistical methods. Results: In the course of research it was recorded that the work of surgeons (according to the criteria of the current “Hygienic classification of work”) is characterized by high intensity (class 3.2), high probability of exposure to infectious agents (class 3.3, and 4), harmful effects of physical factors (class 3.1 ), which according to the criteria of the general hygienic assessment of working conditions according to the degree of harmfulness and danger allows being assigned to class 3.3 (“harmful”) and 4 (“dangerous”), respectively. Such working conditions provoke an increase in chronic morbidity (industrial and temporary disability), lead to the development of occupational diseases, and can pose a threat to the lives of workers. The need to focus attention on assessing the safety of hospitals in emergencies not only on issues of occupational safety and health but also on the stability and reliability of hospitals in such extreme conditions. Conclusions: The work process of doctors is characterized by the impact on their body of a complex of unfavorable production factors of psycho-physiological, biological, physical, and chemical nature, among which the leaders are high labor intensity due to intellectual and emotional load, irrational mode of work and rest, and biological factors.