Worker safety in emergency department (Konya example)

Emergency services are stressfuland tense environments foremployeesduetopatientsbeingexaminatedwhocomeforseveralreasonsandgivendecisionsfort heirlivesinshort time and high mortality rates. Employees working here many times cannot evenper form their basic physiological needs live in exhausting fatigueso this condition screatetension. Health workers in our country are employed in hospital smostly according to Health Ministry‟s records but a lot of the munabletoreceive health and Safety services. Their occupationaldiseases and work accidentsare not even recorded. The most important risk of health workers being forgotten is same as the risk of regular people who are facing all the risks in currentlife. Its forgotten that the health worker is a human being. The health worker faces all same risks like everyonewhoagainst. Toget an traffic accident,poisoning and infectiousdiseases are become not lesst han of other people, it is evenmorehappenedagainst the mandtheirchancesare not protecting them morethanotherpersons. Keywords : Occupational Health andSafety, HealthWorkers, Emergency Service