title: [Labor accidents involving the eyes: assessment of occupational risks involving nursing workers].
abstract: The study aimed at identifying nursing workers who were victims of eye accidents and the type of accident; describing the measures taken and proposing Health Education methods. A descriptive and exploratory study was carried out at a public maternity hospital from September 2002 to January 2003. Data were collected through direct observation of the environment and interviews with workers. Subjects were ten professionals (one nurse, two technicians and seven nursing auxiliaries) who were victims of work accidents involving the eye. The accidents were grouped according to the type of material that caused the trauma: chemical substances (4), medication (3), mechanical trauma (1), scalp (1) and urine (1). The results reveal that hospital workers are vulnerable to labor accidents because the environment presents biological, chemical and physical risks. An important step to prevent the occurrence of new accidents would be the prevention of human mistakes through permanent training and the use of protection glasses.
authors.affiliation: Mestranda em Enfermagem, Bolsista Capes.
authors.forename: Cristiana Brasil
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: de Almeida
authors.forename: Lorita Marlena Freitag
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Pagliuca
authors.forename: Ana Lourdes Almeida e Silva
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Leite
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005131:Eye Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D009729:Nursing; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012307:Risk Factors