HEALTH AND SAFETY--POLLUTION PREVENTION IN HOSPITALS

描述：为了应对新的监管和基于社区的举措， 许多美国医院将制定计划，改变废物管理， 在未来两年内使用材料的做法。 这种快速引入 新材料和工作实践的发展将对 医院工作人员的职业健康和安全，特别是如果 这些旨在改善周围环境的工作场所变化， 使用良好的工作环境实践。 This project will use 环境激励措施为医院提供的机会， 制定积极的污染防治计划，与三家医院合作， 制定实施职业健康的具体、综合方法 和安全污染预防（OHS-PP）干预策略。 的 拟议工作的目标是制定工作场所干预措施， 减少聚氯乙烯（PVC）使用的战略-以及 医院含汞材料，同时提高职业 医院工作人员的健康和安全。 该项目的目标包括： 建立多学科、院内OHS-PP干预团队， 三家医院中的每一家;确定 OHS-PP问题;制定课程和教材， 医院OHS-PP干预团队;开发和实施 干预前OHS-PP演练调查和工作分析;研究 医院材料和工作实践的具体干预策略 产生含聚氯乙烯或汞废物的废物;实施 干预措施;进行干预后OHS-PP走查调查， 工作分析;分析收集的数据并比较研究结果 三家医院内部和之间的调查结果。 本研究的产品将 是建立医院的示范计划和指导手册 职业健康与安全-计划，案例研究， 同行评审的文献，评估的动机和障碍， 建议在三家医院开展工作，并将结果与 以及替代工作实践、材料、产品和 干预小组和项目工作人员确定的供应商。 信息 并制定OHS-PP计划和手册范本 通过最近创建的可持续发展基金， 马萨诸塞州大学医院信息交换所和网站 洛厄尔

DESCRIPTION: In response to new regulatory and community-based initiatives, many U.S. hospitals will develop plans to change their waste management and materials use practices within the next two years. This rapid introduction of new materials and work practices will have significant implications for the occupational health and safety of hospital workers, particularly if these workplace changes intended to improve the ambient environment are not brought about using sound work environment practices. This project will use the opportunity provided by the environmental incentives for hospitals to develop active pollution prevention plans to work with three hospitals to develop specific, integrated methods for implementing occupational health and safety-pollution prevention (OHS-PP) intervention strategies. The objective of the proposed work is to develop workplace intervention strategies to reduce the use of polyvinyl chloride (PVC)- and mercury-containing materials in hospitals while improving the occupational health and safety of hospital workers. Aims of the project include: establishing multidisciplinary, in-hospital OHS-PP intervention teams for each of the three hospitals; identifying the important dimensions of the OHS-PP problems; developing a curriculum and educational materials for in-hospital OHS-PP intervention teams; developing and conducting pre-intervention OHS-PP walkthrough surveys and job analyses; researching specific intervention strategies for hospital materials and work practices that generate PVC- or mercury- containing waste; implementing the interventions; conducting post-intervention OHS-PP walkthrough surveys and job analyses; and analyzing the data collected and comparing the study findings within and among the three hospitals. Products of this study will be a model plan and instructional manual for setting up hospital occupational health and safety-programs, case studies intended for the peer-reviewed literature that evaluates the motivations and barriers to the proposed work in the three hospitals and that will compare the results among them, and a list of alternative work practices, materials, products and vendors identified by the intervention teams and project staff. Information about these alternatives and the model OHS-PP plan and manual will be made available to hospitals nationwide through the recently created Sustainable Hospitals Clearinghouse and Web site at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.