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0224/2018 - Workplace accidents among hospital cleaning professionals in an northeast capital, Brazil.
Acidentes de trabalho entre profissionais da limpeza hospitalar em uma capital do nordeste, Brasil.

Author:

• Sâmea Cristina Santos Gomes - Gomes, SCS - <cris_samea@hotmail.com>

Co-author(s):

• isabela Vieira dos Santos Mendonça - Mendonça, IVS - <isabela@ifma.edu.br>
• Luana Pontes Oliveira - Oliveira, LP - <lua_pontes@hotmail.com>
• Arlene de Jesus Mendes Caldas - CALDAS, A.J.M.C. - <ajm.caldas@ufma.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7087-8781


Abstract:

The goal of this study was to investigate the prevalence and factors associated with workplace accidents among hospital cleaning professionals. We interviewed 199 cleaning workers from six hospitals in São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil. Firstly, univariate analysis was performed and, later, the Poisson regression analyzes with robust variance were used, with hierarchized modeling of the data in order to estimate the prevalence ratios (PR) between the independent variables and the outcome (workplace accidents). The prevalence of workplace accidents is 13.57%, 81.48% of them with sharps. At the end of the multivariate analysis the following were found to be associated with workplace accidents: aged betwee 18 and 30, not having a high-school degree, on the job for 2 to 5 years, inadequate segregation of waste health (WHS), training only on admission, failure to consider the health hazards of hospital waste and failure to use personal protective equipment (PPE). Evaluated factors presented itself meaningfully associated to occupational accidents and reinforce the importance of continued health education, stressing periodic training and the use of PPE.

Keywords:

Occupational health. Hospital housekeeping. Workplace Accidents . Health Waste Services.

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Gomes, SCS, Mendonça, IVS, Oliveira, LP, CALDAS, A.J.M.C.. Workplace accidents among hospital cleaning professionals in an northeast capital, Brazil.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2018/Apr). [Citado em 28/09/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/workplace-accidents-among-hospital-cleaning-professionals-in-an-northeast-capital-brazil/16757?id=16757



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