Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 171 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Introduction -- Public Health Significance -- Controlling and Preventing Occupational Illness and Infection -- Microbiology Basics -- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Regulatory Compliance -- Other Regulatory Requirements, National Standards, and Accreditation -- Performing a Hazard Assessment and Building an Exposure Control Plan -- Institutional and Administrative Controls -- Engineering Controls and Safer Medical Devices -- Personal Protective Equipment Placement and Use -- Facing a Modern Pandemic -- Making It All Work -- Appendices |
Summary |
This book is a practical guide for preventing occupational exposures to bloodborne and infectious disease in health care. It is a timely and essential resource given that people working in healthcare settings sustain a higher incidence of occupational illness than any other industry sector, and at the time of publication of this book we are in the midst of a global pandemic of COVID-19. While the guide is focused on health care primarily, it would be useful for preventing exposures to essential workers in many other industries as well. The guide offers easy-to-follow instruction, all in one place, for creating, implementing, and evaluating occupational health and safety programs. Readers have practical information that they can use now to either build a new program or expand an existing one that protects workers from occupationally associated illness and infection. With a focus on the public health significance of building better, safer programs in health care, the book provides not just the evidence-based or data-driven reasoning behind building successful programs, but also includes sample programs, plans, checklists, campaigns, and record-keeping and surveillance tools |
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Hospitals -- Safety measures
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Communicable diseases -- Hospitals.
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Health promotion.
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Medicine, Industrial.
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Medicine.
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Health services administration.
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Personnel management.
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Health Promotion
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Occupational Medicine
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Medicine
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Patient Care Management
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Health Services Administration
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Patient Care Management -- methods
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Personnel Management
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medicines (material)
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medicine (discipline)
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Occupational medicine.
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Medicine: general issues.
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Medical administration & management.
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Personnel & human resources management.
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Public health & preventive medicine.
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Medical -- Occupational & Industrial Medicine.
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Medical -- General.
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Medical -- Administration.
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Business & Economics -- Human Resources & Personnel Management.
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Medical -- Preventive Medicine.
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Hospitals -- Safety measures
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Communicable diseases -- Hospitals
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Health promotion
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Health services administration
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Medicine
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Medicine, Industrial
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Personnel management
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9783030560393 |
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3030560392 |
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