Padrón VY, Moreno PSN, Márquez FA, González VLM, Pérez HF

Language: Spanish
References: 15
Page: 202-209
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: occupational accident is a sudden fact casually related to work activity, causing damage, illness or death to worker. In the health sector, there are also a number of work-related accidents every year due to the spread of a pathogen or accidental injuries.
Objective: to describe the behavior of occupational accidents in workers exposed to biological risks in health institutions in Pinar del Rio province.
Method: a descriptive and retrospective study was carried out during 2014 to 2015; the target group included 87 health workers injured due to biological risk in the province during this period. Eighty-seven (87) epidemiological surveys were reviewed comprising work-related accidents and the information recorded matched with the variables chosen.
Results: 87 accidents were reported due to biological risk, predominantly women (78.2%), aged 25-34 years. Laboratory workers (27.6%) and nursing staff (26.4%) had more working experience with 5 to 9 years. 95.4% of those injured by biological risk presented lesions in hands with intact skin. 48.3% of the workers were wounded and disinfected, while 21.8% facilitated bleeding and other 21.8% only washed the wound.
Conclusions: the greatest risk of accidents in health workers is in contact with blood and its products. Deep puncture injuries are a major cause of exposure to serious and sometimes fatal diseases. The poor quality of the means of protection could affect the occurrence of occupational accidents. An adjustment of the Biological Safety Program is required, considering at the same time the factors of human behavior to avoid biological risk accidents.

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