Factors affecting environmental health and safety in healthcare sector

dc.contributor.authorSaranga, B
dc.contributor.authorRajini, D
dc.contributor.editorSandanayake, YG
dc.contributor.editorFernando, NG
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-23T09:00:48Z
dc.date.available2022-05-23T09:00:48Z
dc.date.issued2013-06
dc.description.abstractEnvironmental Health and Safety (EHS) is a discipline, which involves creating a culture of health, safety, and environmental protection in a workplace. It provides workplaces that are injury-free and incident-free for all employees, visitors and contractors, as well as enhances the wellbeing of those parties and local communities. Therefore, EHS has a direct impact on morale of stakeholders, employee productivity as well as on organisational performance. Healthcare facilities are specific from others, and customers and workers in healthcare sector are exposed to huge amount of harmful contaminants compared to other working environments. There are many EHS issues that can be identified in healthcare sector, and inability to control such issues will become an epidemic to the whole society. Various factors determine the EHS condition of an organisation such as ventilation, lighting levels, noise, and design of workstations, safety measures in emergencies, to name few. Having a better understanding on those factors will enable the maintenance of effective EHS practices so that the negative impact of poor EHS practices can be minimized. Hence, the financial goals and objectives of the organisation can be achieved. Even though, such importance is there, studies on EHS is hardly found and a less attention has received to this subject. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to critically evaluate the factors affecting EHS in healthcare facilities. A comprehensive literature review was carried out to identify the EHS factors. Five environmental factors and eight occupational health and safety related factors were identified through the review and they be used to study the critical factors affecting EHS of healthcare facilities in future research agenda.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSaranga, B., & Rajini, D. (2013). Factors affecting environmental health and safety in healthcare sector .In Y.G. Sandanayake & N.G. Fernando (Eds.), Socio-economic sustainability in construction: practice, policy and research (pp. 226-234). Ceylon Institute of Builders. htps://ciobwcs.com/downloads/WCS2013-Proceedings.pdfen_US
dc.identifier.conference2nd World Construction Symposium 2013en_US
dc.identifier.departmentBuilding Economicsen_US
dc.identifier.emaildamee_uom@yahoo.comen_US
dc.identifier.facultyArchitectureen_US
dc.identifier.pgnospp. 226-234en_US
dc.identifier.placeColomboen_US
dc.identifier.proceedingSocio-economic sustainability in construction: practice, policy and researchen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/17904
dc.identifier.year2013en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCeylon Institute of Buildersen_US
dc.relation.urihttps://ciobwcs.com/downloads/WCS2013-Proceedings.pdfen_US
dc.subjectEnvironmental health and safety (EHS)en_US
dc.subjectEnvironmental health and safety factoren_US
dc.subjectHealthcare facilities.en_US
dc.titleFactors affecting environmental health and safety in healthcare sectoren_US
dc.typeConference-Full-texten_US

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