Mohsin Ali Shaikh
Department of Safety Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, China
Biography
My name is Mohsin Ali Shaikh s/o Usman Ali Shaikh, born on 11th August 1987 at Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan. I Completed my Bachelor of Engineering in Textile Engineering (2008-2012) and Master Degree in Industrial Engineering and Management (2014-2017) from Mehran UET, Jamshoro Pakistan. After completed my master I have gotten scholarship in USTC, china as a PhD student in safety science and engineering department. It is great honor for me that I have published four conference paper and one international paper is in proceeding in safety science journal. This research will play a vital role to solve the human being issue at the workplace. It is the interdisciplinary academic field which systematically studies human interaction with the environment in the interests of solving complex problems. Moreover, Public health research is a broad field of study that includes also the natural issues, built environment, and the sets of relationships between them.
Abstract
Across the globe, Occupational health hazards have increased along with the progressive development in public health hospital. The recently occupational accidents and injuries cases shows that hospital organizations need to reduce the work-related occupational health hazards at workplace. The aim of this study to provide better health facilities and protect the health care workers (HCWs) from occupational hazards. HCWs are facing the tremendous health hazards related occupational place. The main objective of this study to determine work-related occupational health hazards among HCWs in Karachi, Pakistan. Data was collected from one public health hospital and SPSS software were used to analyze the data. In which mean, frequency and percentage were used to compile the data. The result shows that there were total 150 HCWs participated in which majority of the workers were exposed from physical hazards, biological hazard, chemical hazards, ergonomic hazards, electrical hazards and psychological hazards. It is concluded that health care organization became failed to provide better workplace for HCWs. Workers were deprived of the training of handling infectious materials and they were facing skin contact disease and injuries. It is recommended that more challenges are required to providing better occupational health facilities and services to HCWs workers.