TY - JOUR
AB - Workplace safety in the surgical suite: OSHA’s effect Molly Bolin, MPA, BA ith the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, Congress created the Occupational W Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to set and enforce mandatory occupational safety and health standards. According to OSHA, hospitals and personal care facilities employ approximately 1.6 million workers at 21,000 work sites . Approximately 160,000 of those workers are perioperative nurses who are exposed to a variety of serious occupational dangers each day. “There are many ways OSHA acts to protect the health and safety of perioperative nurses. Often, the surgical team is aware of the safety precautions that need to be taken, but fail to heed them, for example wearing eye protection,” said Mary Ogg, other potentially infectious materials must write MSN, RN, CNOR, AORN perioperative nursing an exposure control plan. In addition, employers specialist. In the 42 years since its formation, must take the standard precautions approach to OSHA, along with the Centers for Disease infection control, where all blood and certain body Control and Prevention’s National Institute for fluids are treated as if known to be infected with Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) have human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis acted 
TI - Workplace safety in the surgical suite: OSHA's effect
JF - AORN Journal
DO - 10.1016/S0001-2092(12)00600-X
DA - 2012-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/workplace-safety-in-the-surgical-suite-osha-s-effect-PRPrRJA5PW
SP - C1
EP - C9
VL - 96
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -