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Revista de la Asociación Española de Especialistas en Medicina del Trabajo
On-line version ISSN 3020-1160Print version ISSN 1132-6255
Abstract
PEREZ-CORREA, Juan Carlos; SUESCUN-CASTANO, Paula Andrea and LOPEZ-LOPEZ, Lucelly. Occupational accidents in health: characterization of worker conditions and the work environment in a tertiary care hospital. Rev Asoc Esp Espec Med Trab [online]. 2022, vol.31, n.4, pp.345-358. Epub Mar 13, 2023. ISSN 3020-1160.
Objectives:
The objective was to characterize individual conditions of the worker and his environment related to occupational accidents. The cross-sectional study included injured workers in a third-level hospital in Medellín, in the period 2015-2019. There were 492 accidents, the predominant age was 26 - 40 years (54.7%). The mechanical risk was more frequent (44.7%; n=220), the biological accident was more frequent in those younger than 25 and older than 60 years (p<0.028). 96.9% (n=447) of the accidents were minor, the majority of people stated that they had received induction and training on the job (98.2%; n=483). There are characteristics such as gender, age, profession and others from the environment such as hours, type of risk, training, which can condition the presentation of occupational accidents. This promotes intelligent epidemiological surveillance programs with a risk approach and the importance of assessing training and inductions, since these may not be fulfilling self-care objectives.
Keywords : Work accidents; Intra-employment conditions; Extra-work conditions; Health personnel; Mechanical risk; Biological risk.