Background: Morgue workers are routinely exposed to biological, chemical, physical, ergonomic, and psychosocial hazards while handling human remains. Although Kenya's Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), 2007, provides a legal framework for workplace safety, limited evidenc...
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Introduction: Physiotherapists are exposed to contracting infectious diseases because of the level of contact they have with patients in the course of performing their statutory clinical duties. Objective: The major objective of the study is to determine the availability and util...
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Background: Standard precautions (SPs) in the hospital are very important in the reduction of health care workers’ exposure to occupational health hazards but most hospitals are used to reactive rather than proactive safety practices. The effect of reactive safety practices is ov...
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