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Ethics code: IR.SSU.SPH.REC.1399.048


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Bachelor student Department of Health Services Management, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran , mehrdadrahaei@gmail.com
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Introduction: Today, it is essential to pay attention to the opportunities and threats in health services, especially in hospitals, to identify and evaluate the existing risks and manage them in these centers. Hospital risk management is a program to reduce the occurrence and prevalence of preventable accidents and is of great economic, human and moral importance in the hospital environment. This study aimed to evaluate and prioritize the occupational safety and health risks of the staff of Shahid Sadoughi Hospital in Yazd in 2019

Methods and material: : The present study is descriptive-cross-sectional. In the first step, the main risks in clinical, laboratory, facilities, radiology, and administrative departments were identified. Based on FMEA logic, three severity, probability, and vulnerability indicators were identified for each risk. Then, prioritization criteria were determined, and ANP prioritized the risks.
Results: According to infectious disease experts with a risk of 0.86 in the clinical ward, inhalation of Barisek chemical vapor 1.17 in the laboratory, radiation of the device with a risk of 0.64 in imaging, infectious disease with a risk of 0.33 and 1.3 in order of priority The first were in the administrative and facilities department.
Conclusion: The  results showed that the hospital  management should adopt special  management  programs to control infectious diseases with a staff  health approach. Control  measures should be set with priority risks. The difference in the obtained  risk numbers  indicated the different  priorities of implementing risk management  programs in each  ward of  Shahid  Sadoughi Hospital.
 
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Type of Study: Applicable | Subject: Safety and occupational accidents
Received: 2021/09/8 | Accepted: 2022/04/18 | Published: 2022/05/31

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