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1/ Look after your work areas
Communal areas – i.e. kitchen, meeting rooms, patient waiting areas. These areas, especially the kitchen, can be dangerous. Staff members must be diligent to prevent and report possible issues. Be careful in this area because both water and electricity are commonly found in the same space – their mix can be dangerous.
Maintenance areas – i.e. gas cylinder areas, cleaner's cupboard, biomedical workshops and boiler rooms. Be extremely careful in these areas. Only enter with permission from the maintenance team. Heat, chemicals, electricity and water may all be hazards in these areas. A strict ‘approved-authorisation-only’ policy should be enforced.
In the office. Look after computer electrical cables and make sure that computers and other electrical equipment cannot overheat. Be careful of tripping over items on the floor too. Have chairs and desks at the correct height to prevent back injury.
In the clinic. Clear the pathways for patients. Make sure equipment and stock cannot be tampered with. Have hand wash and gloves available in each room. Clean equipment between each patient, and clean the whole room at the end of the day. Follow Laser Safety policies when using lasers.
In the operating theatre. As in the clinic, ensure that the area is clean and tidy. Extra care needs to be taken in this area because there are often more machines (meaning more electrical cables), which pose a tripping hazard. Also make sure staff members are trained in correct manual handling to prevent injury when transferring patients and moving beds.
Personal protective equipment (PPE) is really important. It protects you and your patient. This includes wearing of masks, aprons, gloves, suitable shoes (which cover your toes and provide heel support) and other items such as lead aprons if you are working in the radiology department. Other important key items are laser safety goggles for when you are using a laser
Always look after your body when you are at work.
Prevent needle stick injury
2/ Lead aprons are used in medical facilities to protect workers and patients from unnecessary x-ray radiation exposure from diagnostic radiology procedures. A lead (or leadequivalent) apron is a protective garment which is designed to shield the body from harmful radiation, usually in the context of medical imaging.
3/ Yes because if the patient is let's say covid positive and you are close to him /her then changes of yours to get infected will rise so to decrease it is advised to follow 6 feet distance rule to prevent transmission increase closeness to beam like X ray beam which is very harmful can leads to some mutations inside the body and finally cancer sets in to prevent all such things always far away from radiations
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