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Occupational Health for Healthcare Providers
Latest News
- Latest News
- "Super" Bacteria Can Live on Sheets and Fingernails (06/06/2005, Reuters Health)
Overviews
- Overviews
- Hospital eTool: Hazards and Controls Found in the Hospital Setting (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
- Nursing Home eTool: Occupational Hazards in Long Term Care (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
Prevention/Screening
- Prevention/Screening
- Back Facts: A Training Workbook to Prevent Back Injuries in Nursing Homes (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
- Bloodborne Pathogens (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
- Ergonomics (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
- Ergonomics: Guidelines for Nursing Homes (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
- Exposure to Blood: What Health-Care Workers Need to Know (National Center for Infectious Diseases) - Links to PDF
Also available in: Spanish - Eye Protection for Infection Control (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health)
- Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Health Care Workers: Avoiding Infections at Work (American Academy of Family Physicians)
Also available in: Spanish - How to Protect Yourself from Needlestick Injuries (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health)
Also available in: Spanish - Infection (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
- Management of Occupational Exposures to Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, and HIV and Recommendations for Postexposure Prophylaxis (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- National Clinicians' Post-Exposure Prophylaxis Hotline (University of California, San Francisco)
- Needlesticks/Sharps Injuries (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
- Occupational Exposure to HIV: Advice for Health Care Workers (American Academy of Family Physicians)
Also available in: Spanish - Optical Radiation: Laser Protection (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
- Personal Protective Equipment (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
- Recommendations to Protect Laboratory, Field, and Clinical Workers from West Nile Virus Exposure (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health)
Also available in: Spanish - Slips/Trips/Falls (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
- Understanding Respiratory Protection against SARS (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Coping
- Coping
- Stress (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
- Tips for Shift Workers: How to Eat, Sleep and Stay Fit When You Work Unusual Hours (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
Related Issues
- Related Issues
- Dentistry (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
- Ethylene Oxide (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) - Links to PDF
- Formaldehyde (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) - Links to PDF
- Glutaraldehyde: Occupational Hazards in Hospitals (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Also available in: Spanish - Guidance on Air Medical Transport for SARS Patients (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Haz-Map: Occupational Exposure to Hazardous Agents (National Library of Medicine)
- Hazardous Drugs (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
- Infectious Diseases that May Be Transmitted/Acquired in Healthcare Settings (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Laser/Electrosurgery Plume (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
- Latex Allergy (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
- Laundry: Washing Infected Materials (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- MRSA - Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Information for Healthcare Personnel (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Multidrug-Resistant Organisms in Non-Hospital Healthcare Settings (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Nursing Homes and Personal Care Facilities (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
- Oral Health: Infection Control for Dentistry (National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion)
- Preventing Occupational Exposure to Antineoplastic and Other Hazardous Drugs in Health Care Settings (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health)
- Tuberculosis (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
- Vancomycin-Intermediate/Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Violence: Occupational Hazards in Hospitals (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Also available in: Spanish - Waste Anesthetic Gases (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
- Workplace Violence (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
Organizations
- Organizations
- Dept. of Labor
- Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Also available in: Spanish - Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Also available in: Spanish
Statistics
- Statistics
- Surveillance of Healthcare Personnel with HIV/AIDS, as of December 2002 (National Center for Infectious Diseases)