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OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENTS WITH BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL AMONG NURSING WORKERS IN A HOSPITAL IN ANGOLA This is an exploratory descriptive study with a quantitative analysis approach that had the goal to characterize the occupational accidents among nursing workers involving highly contaminated biologic material at a public general hospital in Angola, from July 2002 to July 2003, and was developed with the intent to provide bases for the implementation of policies for avoiding occupational accidents among health professionals. Data collection was performed through face-to-face guided interviews, applied by five previously trained individuals, after all ethic principles had been complied. From the total of 378 nursing workers, 278 participated in this study. The showed that the studied population is heterogeneous, with ages ranging between 22 and 66 years, being that most (30.93%) were aged between 22 and 30, and 31 to 40 years (24.82%). Most participants are married and have a high-school educational level (59.00%). There is a high incidence of accidents among this population, as 93.88% of the 278 participants suffered a total of 1,477 different accidents, ranging from 1 to 56 accidents per person. Each worker described up to 4 accidents (maximum) in the study, adding up a total of 376 described accidents, being that blood and its derivates were the most stated biological material (78.46%). From the total of accidents, 47.10% happened through contact, followed by percutaneous accidents (45.20%). Most happened in the morning (61.44%), resulting from the administration of drugs. After the occurrence of most accidents (97.61%), there was no administrative conduct and none of the workers were submitted to prophylaxis against Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), or hepatitis B. In 72.87% of the accidents, 73.56% of the workers were not using Individual Protection Equipment (IPE) and 96.01% were not aware of the patient’s condition regarding HIV or hepatitis B and C. This showed that occupational accidents in institutions result from the interaction of many factors directly entwined to the development and training of biosafety norms and to the lack of institutional and governmental policies for the prevention of accidents involving biologic material; thus representing impairment to this populations’ occupational health. Facing the problems involving these workers’ occupational health, there is urgency for the development of strategies to reduce the workplace risks, particularly in the current circumstances when diseases of such high risks have emerged.

"Acidentes ocupacionais com material biológico entre profissionais de enfermagem em um hospital de Angola"