Identification of professional hazards at work of a doctor with special determination of hazards "New and emerging"

Abstract

Employees of health care institutions are exposed to many factors that threaten their health and even life. Doctors belong to the group of health professionals who have direct contact with threats, especially biological ones and psychophysical. Among them, so-called "New" threats that are difficult to identify, measure and evaluate. While biological threats are indicated by specialists as the main and priority in prevention, psychophysical threats – especially psychosocial ones – are underestimated. Their impact on the health and lives of doctors is important and determines both the quality of work performed and the level of occupational risk of doctors' work. There is a need for reliable identification of "new" threats and appearing "to minimize their im pact on work, but above all health and life of doctors. This work identifies occupational hazards in the work of a physician, with particular emphasis on those whose reliable identification is quite a challenge. The presented results are part of a larger whole.