Abstract:

In recent years, along with the remarkable developments in the tertiary sector in the world, there have been changes in the perception of occupational health and safety, and the tertiary sector has also entered into the study field of occupational health and safety.  Health services, which are included in the tertiary sector, are the services that have different departments and are carried out by various occupations.   Works done by the housekeeping personnel, who are among the workers of health services, involve risks and dangers, thus, the personnel have the risk of having occupational accidents. Therefore, for the purpose of analyzing the occupational accidents experienced by housekeeping personnel in hospitals according to some demographical characteristics, this study was prepared in descriptive type by benefiting from the data of 41 personnel, who had occupational accidents, among 400 housekeeping personnel who agreed to participate in the study and work in 14 hospitals, the inpatient bed availability of which is over 50, affiliated to universities and the Ministry of Health in Ankara city center, except for the hospitals specialized in certain fields, military hospitals and private hospitals within the borders of Ankara province. In the study, males, the ones in the age group of 35 and below, primary school graduates, the ones having the lower level of education and married people precede among the housekeeping personnel who had occupational accidents. Among the personnel, the ones exposed to ‘sharp object injuries’ and having occupational accidents while ‘collecting waste’ take place on the top. Furthermore, the relationship between the type of the occupational accident the personnel had, the work they were doing when they had an accident, their opinions on the cause of the accident and opinions regarding the hospital administration’s status of care on “implementations regarding occupational health and safety”, and the gender, age and educational level of the personnel was found to be statistically insignificant (p>0,05).

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