Fatma DEMİRCAN YILDIRIM

Coronavirus Risk Assessment and Occupational Health and Safety Practices in Workplaces During Normalization Process

The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak hasunprecedented effects worldwide and the extent ofinfection, illness, and fatalities have forcedgovernments to take more stringent measures. Thisstudy aims to identify the risk factors to stop thespread of the virus, develop preliminary plans, anddetermine applicable measures in workplaces, insummary, to determine new normals in workplacesin the context of the Corona virus challange,utilizing lessons learned from the past pandemics.The United States (US) Centers for Disease Controland Prevention (CDC), the Occupational Safety andHealth Administration (OSHA) sources, and GoogleScholar, PubMed, Scopus and Web of Sciencedatabases were reviewed comprehensively toidentify transmission methods, protection methodsand risk factors. “Anticipate, Recognize, Evaluate,Control, Confirm (ARECC)”, an industrial hygienedecision making method, was used to manage therisk of pathogens in workplaces and hierarchy ofhazard control method by the US National Institutefor Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) wasimplemented to determine measures. This studyidentifies hazards, assesses risks, and suggestscontrol measures in changing pandemic conditionswith a systematic approach, and presents the suitableways minimizing the risk to prevent new waves forthe pandemics.

Normalleşme Sürecinde İşyerlerinde Koronavirüs Risk Değerlendirmesi ve İş Sağlığı ve Güvenliği Uygulamaları

Devam eden COVID-19 salgınının, dünya çapında benzeri görülmemiş sonuçları olmuş ve enfeksiyon, hastalık ve ölümlerin boyutu hükümetleri daha katı önlemler almaya zorlamıştır. Bu çalışma, normalleşme sürecine girilen bu günlerde geçmiş pandemilerden edinilen tecrübelerden yararlanarak işyerlerinde virüsün yayılmasını durdurmak için risk faktörlerinin tanımlanması, hazırlık planlarının geliştirilmesi, uygulanabilir önlemlerin tespit edilmesi, özetle Corona virüsü mücadelesinde işyerlerinde yeni normalleri belirlemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Birleşik Devletler Hastalık Kontrol ve Korunma Merkezi (CDC), Mesleki Güvenlik ve Sağlık İdaresi (OSHA) kaynakları ile Google Scholar, PubMed, Scopus ve Web of Science veri tabanları bulaşma yöntemleri, koruma yöntemleri ve riski faktörlerini belirlemek için kapsamlı bir şekilde gözden geçirilmiştir. İşyerinde patojenler kaynaklı risklerin yönetilmesi için endüstriyel hijyen karar verme yöntemi olan "Öngör, Tanı, Değerlendir, Kontrol Et, Onayla" (ARECC) yöntemi, önlemlerin olarak belirlenmesi için de Birleşik Devletler Ulusal İş Sağlığı ve Güvenliği Enstitüsü (NIOSH) tarafından hazırlanan tehlike kontrolü hiyerarşisi yöntemi uygulanmıştır. Bu çalışma sistematik bir yaklaşımla değişen pandemi koşullarında tehlikeleri tanımlar, riskleri değerlendirir, kontrol önlemleri önerir ve mevcut ve gelecekteki pandemiler için risk yönetimi kararlarını kolaylaştırma nihai hedefi ile yeni dalgaları önlemek için riski en aza indirmenin en uygun yollarını sunar.

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