Topic: Emerging Occupational Health Issues in (HOSPITALS)In the contemporary workplace there are a range of emerging issues in the management of occupational health. Based on relevant sources of...

Running Head: EMERGING OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH ISSUES IN (HOSPITALS)    1
EMERGING OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH ISSUES IN (HOSPITALS)            2
EMERGING OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH ISSUES IN (HOSPITALS)
Table of Contents
Introduction    3
Critical Literature Review and Discussion    3
Development of Biological Risk in Hospitals Staffs    3
Impact of Biological Risk on Healthcare Staffs    4
Role of Work health and Safety Legislation for Mitigating Biological Risk at Hospitals    5
Preventive Practices for the Mitigation of Biological Risk    6
Conclusion    6
References    8
Introduction
    The nature of the tasks executed by the employees generate occupational health issues for the staffs, along with their risk of the managerial mismanagement, the long-term impact of the task on both mental and physical health. This ultimately undermines the performance of the taskforce, through lack of confidence, self-esteem and perspective towards the quality of living, generation in the mind of the employees. Similar to that of any other industry or sector, the healthcare sector is also not immune to occupational hazards. In the cu
ent assignment, the healthcare sector of Australia is chosen as the context for identifying the occupational health issues arising recently in the industry and formulating probable suggestions to mitigate the issues for a superior employee experience at the workplace.
Critical Literature Review and Discussion
Development of Biological Risk in Hospitals Staffs
    In hospitals, the care users generate a lot of medical and biological waste, which is disposed by the care staffs, ensuring that the wastes do not contaminate other care users and hygiene is maintained at optimum levels. However, as identified by Lu and Wang (2018), inexperienced care staffs, lacking the formal training in the proper sense of the term, take the disposal and hygiene standards lightly, while disposing the medical and biological wastes, leading to issues of getting infections in their bodies, namely in the form of biological risk.
Disagreeing to the mentioned idea, Kelly, Brown, McCance and Boomer (2018), argued that the nature of the work performed by healthcare staffs make them vulnerable to biological risks as the infections and spreading of diseases are caused not only by human waste, both medical and biological, but also due to the contact with blood, which the staffs have to deal with. A third perception, positioned in the context of biological risk, perceives that staffs management in hospitals in an improper manner, lead to lower awareness about hygiene and biological risk, the contamination of hazardous elements and the spread of disease among the staffs.
As supported by Lim et al. (2018), in case the management of a hospital gives priority to faster service for serving more care users, the guidance, reminding and observation of hygiene during disposal of wastes are not properly prioritised, resulting in biological risk. It is found that in Australian Hospital staffs, 51% of the employees facing occupational health issues have been the result of biological risks (Safe Work Australia, 2019).
Impact of Biological Risk on Healthcare Staffs
    As the healthcare staffs dispose the wastes of the care users on regular basis, they come in close contact with viruses and bacteria, spread across the used medical instruments, such as needles, injection syringes, blood pouches, scissors, knives, dressing cottons, disposed bandages and human waste as well. As identified by Osuorah et al. (2018), the care staffs working in...