Saudi Journal of Nursing and Health Care (SJNHC)
Volume-2 | Issue-12 | 438-442
Review Article
Health Hazards at Work Place: Application of WHO Modal with Literature Review
Rukhsana Rafique, Sana Sehar, Muhammad Afzal
Published : Dec. 30, 2019
Abstract
Nursing profession is full of hazards. Health care worker faced all kind of hazards including biological, non-biological hazards, physical environmental, electrical, chemical hazards. A health care professional are at risk of these hazards. Among physical hazards back pain is more common. WHO provide a modal in 2010 for healthy work place. There are four avenues of this modal are: The physical work environment 2. The psychosocial work environment 3. Personal health resources in the workplace 4. Enterprise community involvement. There are many reasons for these hazards like Poor work organization, lack of awareness and competency of dealing with the equipment, heavy work load, lack of proper rest, poor diet, strict manager. Sufficient literature review is given for these hazards and their managements. In this study we discuss what are common hazards that are faced by health care worker and how they control.