The awareness of healthcare workers about hazardous substances used in a tertiary hospital
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Türkiye
Doç. Dr. Mehmet ESEN
Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa Üniversitesi, Türkiye
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| Makale Alt Türü | Ulusal alan endekslerinde (TR Dizin, ULAKBİM) yayınlanan tam makale |
| Dergi Adı | The European Research Journal |
| Dergi ISSN | 2149-3189 |
| Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler | TR DİZİN |
| Makale Dili | İngilizce |
| Basım Tarihi | 03-2019 |
| Cilt No | 5 |
| Sayı | 2 |
| Sayfalar | 341 / 349 |
| DOI Numarası | 10.18621/eurj.383355 |
| Makale Linki | http://dergipark.gov.tr/doi/10.18621/eurj.383355 |
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| Objectives: Potentially hazardous materials are commonly used during health practices in the hospitalenvironments. Management of hazardous substances is of great importance. Inadequate training of personnelfor use and disposal of hazardous materials were reported by some studies. The aim of present study was tocreate awareness among healthcare workers for hazardous substances.Methods: A survey was carried out on 204 healthcare workers (125 females and 79 males; mean age: 33.8 ±12.9 years) to measure their level of knowledge about hazardous substances used in hospitals.Results: Hospital departments were investigated and it was found that listing of dangerous substances weremissing, their locations were not fixed, and they were not stored in isolated areas. Sixty percent of theparticipants considered themselves not having enough knowledge about hazardous materials. Ninety percentof the respondents thought that warning signs and symbols placed on hazardous material storage cabinets areuseful. It was determined that warning signs for flammable, hazardous for environment, corrosive and explosivewere significantly less known compared to symbols (p = 0.037, p = 0.018, p < 0.001 and p < 0.001,respectively).Conclusions: It was concluded that healthcare workers did not have sufficient information about hazardoussubstances. Healthcare workers should be trained effectively on hazardous substances issue. |
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