Overview of causes of work accidents and prevention for staff at medical facilities

Abstract

Healthcare plays an important role in today’s life, not only helping to protect people’s health, but also contributing to improving social life. Along with that, the risk of occupational accidents for medical staff is increasing. Building measures to protect medical staff is very important. The objective of this overview is to summarize the causes of occupational accidents in order to have preventive measures for medical staff. Using the method of reviewing medical literature, searching for documents related to the causes and prevention and protection work for medical staff. The results show that there are many causes of occupational accidents such as: Exposure to dangerous factors - harmful factors, unsafe working environment... From there, some measures can be proposed to overcome them. However, the implementation of the above prevention work still faces many difficulties, and is a big challenge for managers at medical facilities. In addition, the overview provides some measures that have been applied at Cho Ray Hospital in preventing occupational accidents for medical staff.