Safety Risk Assessment in Medical and Paramedical Education Laboratories
Background: Considering the reported positive effects of risk management practices and monitoring them by conducting risk assessments and achieving safety improvements, this study was conducted to assess the risks in the educational laboratories of Qom University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This c...
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Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Science, Yazd, Iran
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| author | Ahmad Soltanzadeh Hamidreza Heidari Zahra Sadat Javadi Hoseini Maryam Sorooshnia Hoda Rahimifard |
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| description | Background: Considering the reported positive effects of risk management practices and monitoring them by conducting risk assessments and achieving safety improvements, this study was conducted to assess the risks in the educational laboratories of Qom University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in 13 medical and paramedical educational laboratories. To assess safety conditions in the laboratories, a comprehensive safety checklist was developed, and in order to assess the risks of laboratories, a method called FMEA was used. Two trained occupational health and safety experts evaluated the laboratories understudy, identified the hazards, completed the relevant checklists, and subsequently ranked them based on severity, occurrence, and detection. Finally, a comparison was made based on the calculated Risk Priority Number (RPN) for each hazard. Results: In general, the fire hazards and electrical hazards of 54% of the laboratories have been accompanied by normal risk (RPN< 70), and nearly 8% of the laboratories had critical fire and electrical risks, including chemistry and immunology laboratories. In the case of equipment hazards, nearly 60% of the laboratories had critical or semi-critical risk levels. It is indicated that health exposure hazards were the most important hazards compared to the other ones. So that 61.5% of the laboratories had critical risk, and 15.3 % of them categorized as semi-critical risk. The highest RPN allocated to the biochemistry and chemistry laboratories (RPN>250). Conclusion: The results of this study showed that in general, three types of hazards, including health hazards, equipment, and material storage, should be given priority. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3601f2173b0e402d9df5af0f6997f41d2024-02-14T06:43:21ZengShahid Sadoughi University of Medical Science, Yazd, IranArchives of Occupational Health2588-30702588-36902021-04-0152971979Safety Risk Assessment in Medical and Paramedical Education LaboratoriesAhmad Soltanzadeh0Hamidreza Heidari1Zahra Sadat Javadi Hoseini2Maryam Sorooshnia3Hoda Rahimifard4 Department of Occupational Safety & Hygiene Engineering, Research Center for Environmental Pollutants, Faculty of Health, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran Department of Occupational Safety & Hygiene Engineering, Research Center for Environmental Pollutants, Faculty of Health, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran Student Research Committee, Faculty of Health, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran Student Research Committee, Faculty of Health, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran Department of Occupational Health, Health Deputy, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran Background: Considering the reported positive effects of risk management practices and monitoring them by conducting risk assessments and achieving safety improvements, this study was conducted to assess the risks in the educational laboratories of Qom University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in 13 medical and paramedical educational laboratories. To assess safety conditions in the laboratories, a comprehensive safety checklist was developed, and in order to assess the risks of laboratories, a method called FMEA was used. Two trained occupational health and safety experts evaluated the laboratories understudy, identified the hazards, completed the relevant checklists, and subsequently ranked them based on severity, occurrence, and detection. Finally, a comparison was made based on the calculated Risk Priority Number (RPN) for each hazard. Results: In general, the fire hazards and electrical hazards of 54% of the laboratories have been accompanied by normal risk (RPN< 70), and nearly 8% of the laboratories had critical fire and electrical risks, including chemistry and immunology laboratories. In the case of equipment hazards, nearly 60% of the laboratories had critical or semi-critical risk levels. It is indicated that health exposure hazards were the most important hazards compared to the other ones. So that 61.5% of the laboratories had critical risk, and 15.3 % of them categorized as semi-critical risk. The highest RPN allocated to the biochemistry and chemistry laboratories (RPN>250). Conclusion: The results of this study showed that in general, three types of hazards, including health hazards, equipment, and material storage, should be given priority.http://aoh.ssu.ac.ir/article-1-248-en.pdfrisk assessmentsafety hazardsfailure mode & effects analysis (fmea)laboratory |
| spellingShingle | Ahmad Soltanzadeh Hamidreza Heidari Zahra Sadat Javadi Hoseini Maryam Sorooshnia Hoda Rahimifard Safety Risk Assessment in Medical and Paramedical Education Laboratories Archives of Occupational Health risk assessment safety hazards failure mode & effects analysis (fmea) laboratory |
| title | Safety Risk Assessment in Medical and Paramedical Education Laboratories |
| title_full | Safety Risk Assessment in Medical and Paramedical Education Laboratories |
| title_fullStr | Safety Risk Assessment in Medical and Paramedical Education Laboratories |
| title_full_unstemmed | Safety Risk Assessment in Medical and Paramedical Education Laboratories |
| title_short | Safety Risk Assessment in Medical and Paramedical Education Laboratories |
| title_sort | safety risk assessment in medical and paramedical education laboratories |
| topic | risk assessment safety hazards failure mode & effects analysis (fmea) laboratory |
| url | http://aoh.ssu.ac.ir/article-1-248-en.pdf |
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