Objective: to share the experience related to the production of disposable gowns conducted by nursing staff in a prison complex in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: experience report of project extension actions for the production of personal protective equipment carried out in a prison complex in the Center-West region of Brazil, from March to June, 2020. Results: a total of 6,000 gowns were produc...
The objectives were to identify occupational exposure of community health workers to biological material; to characterize the means of exposure, organic secretions and circumstances involved; to describe the behaviors adopted, and verify the participation of these workers in training on biological risk and biosafety. Descriptive cross-sectional study. Participants comprised 80 workers of the 89 members of famil...
This study aimed to identify and analyze Brazilian recommendations and legislation related to biological risk among health workers. This is a documentary research that researched the legislation and recommendations published from June 1978 to December 2015, by consultation of digital documents of the Ministry of Labor and Employment, Ministry of Health/National Agency of Sanitary Vigilance and "riscobiologico.o...
The objective of the present study was to identify and analyze hazardous behaviors related to exposure to biological material for nursing professionals and users during the preparation and administration of medication in urgent and emergency services. It was an exploratory cross-sectional study, conducted in three large public hospitals. After receiving approval from the ethics committees, data were collected t...