“International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health” (IJOMEH) is an English-language bimonthly (since 2013, earlier – a quarterly) founded in 1988 at the initiative of the Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine in Łódź and the Main Board of the Polish Society of Occupational Medicine. IJOMEH popularizes the achievements of Polish scientific centers of occupational medicin...

1Institute for Occupational Medicine, Charité University Medicine, Charité-Campus Benjamin Franklin Berlin, Germany 2Norwegian Centre for Maritime Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway 3Charité Campus Virchow Clinic, Department of Infectiology and Pneumonology, Pneumonological Oncology, Division of Clinical Allergology, Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany 4Institute of Pharmac...

blood and body fluid exposure is a major occupational safety problems for health care workers. therefore, we conducted a descriptive and retrospective study to identify the characteristics of blood exposure accidents in health care settings which lasted five years (2005-2009) at the two university hospitals of sfax. we have 593 blood exposure accidents in health care settings 152 (25.6%) health...