Workshop Focuses on Healthcare Worker Safety

NIOSH researchers Ahmed Gomaa and Maria Lioce-Mata, and Marie-Claude Lavoie conducted a workshop in Grenada in June 2011 to prepare leaders in the healthcare field to provide programming on prevention of exposure to bloodborne infections and other occupational exposures. The workshop also taught attendees how to evaluate and make recommendations on policies to protect healthcare workers and to establish a regional occupational health and safety network among healthcare professionals. “If we don’t take care of those who are providing the service, we will not be able to deliver that service effectively,” said Ernest Pate, Caribbean Program Coordinator for the Pan American Health Organization, which helped organize the workshop that was attended by 33 hospital infection control and preventive medicine health professionals from nine Caribbean countries. For an overview, click here.