Abstract

LASTRAS GONZALEZ, Susana  and  FERNANDEZ DE LA MONJA, Vanesa Isabel. El médico del trabajo en el control del uso de equipos de protección individual y los problemas de la salud derivados. Med. segur. trab. [online]. 2008, vol.54, n.212, pp.21-32. ISSN 1989-7790.

In this study will provide information on personal protective equipment (PPE) as an important part of our work as doctors work. All workers are exposed to a number of risks, most of them preventable in a collective manner, but in some cases, these measures do not become fully effective it is necessary protective equipment. These teams are intended to be carried or restrained by workers to protect them from risks that may threaten their safety or health in the workplace, but nevertheless they are capable of creating their own effects on the health of workers, derived from its use. For this reason, doctors should monitor the work of health workers, assessing their personal factors that might hinder the use of PPE, inform and train workers on all matters relating to the use of them, choose the appropriate PPE for each worker and, above all, follow up to detect possible effects of the use of PPE and thus avoid the nonuse and therefore the ineffectiveness of PPE.

Keywords : Personal protective equipment; risk; health of workers.

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