CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENTS WITH WASTE FROM HEALTH SERVICES AND THE INFLUENCE OF TRAINING TO MITIGATE THE OCCURRENCE OF ACCIDENTS

Abstract

From the environmental point of view, going beyond the linguistic sign of fauna and flora, the constituent legislator draws attention to the existence of the work environment, which deserves attention and protection, so that the health of the worker is also protected. The cleaning sector of the hospital environment, by its nature, exposes the worker to the risk of occurrences of Occupational Accidents (OA) with aggravating biological risk, since the Waste of Health Services (RSS) may contain the presence of biological agents that, due to their characteristics, can generate a risk of infection, intensified by sharps or scarifying materials, discarded irregularly. This is a qualitative and quantitative research of exploratory-descriptive character. The bibliographic search was carried out in the Web of Science, Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) and CAPES Periodicals databases, and the field research was carried out in three hospitals of the urgency and emergency network of the municipality of Belém-PA. The objective was to research the causes and consequences of OA with HSW and the influence of training to mitigate the occurrences of the event. With a sample of 133 subjects, reliability was 90% and the margin of error was 2.35%. The results revealed that 26.7% of the interviewees suffered OA with HSW; only 20% of the occurrences were recorded in CAT; 37.1% started working with HSW without previous training on the safe handling of this type of waste; 41.3% received information about the risks, but did not exceed two hours of verbalized guidance. The research concluded that TA with RSS can cause, in addition to the biological risks of infectious diseases, in the victims: fear, panic, anguish, anxiety crisis, depression, hypertension and arrhythmia.  That training is the responsibility of the employer and has the potential to reduce the occurrence of accidents