Occupational Health for Healthcare Providers

• Latest News
• Sleepy Interns Committing Key Errors (10/28/2004, Reuters Health)
• Respiratory Therapists at Increased Asthma Risk (10/11/2004, Reuters Health)

• 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)

• Specific Conditions
• MedlinePlus: Radiation Exposure (National Library of Medicine)

• 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 File
  Also available in: Spanish
• 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
• 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
• Dentistry (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
• Ethylene Oxide (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) - Links to PDF File
• Formaldehyde (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) - Links to PDF File
• 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 Chemicals (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
• 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 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
• 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
• Surveillance of Healthcare Personnel with HIV/AIDS, as of December 2002 (National Center for Infectious Diseases)