Background: Prevention of occupational health hazards is crucial role to verify the health
and safety of veterinary assistant workers in the work environment. Aim: Evaluate the effect
of healthy safety program for prevention of occupational health hazards among veterinary
assistant workers. Methods: A quasi- experimental design was utilized. Convenience sample
of 62 veterinary assistant workers at thirty-three Veterinary Health Units in Kalyobia
Governorate. Two tools were used. Tool I: An interviewing tool composed of four parts as
socio-demographic characteristics, work characteristics, medical history, and knowledge of
veterinary assistant workers about occupational health hazards. Tool II: Observational
checklist was concerned with two parts: a- environmental work setting and b- practices of
veterinary assistant workers regarding prevention of occupational health hazards. Results:
58.1% of the studied veterinary assistant workers had poor knowledge regarding prevention
of occupational hazards pre healthy safety program implementation, which declined to 8.1%
post healthy safety program implementation, and 88.7% of the studied veterinary assistant
workers had unsatisfactory practices pre healthy safety program implementation compared
to 17.7% post healthy safety program implementation. |
