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Fig . 4 . Preventive measures against occupational risk . The second row ( yellow ) represents how the participants reported preventive measures . The third row ( grey boxes ) provides details of the radiation protection principles according to the participants . The fourth row ( blue colour ) describes the elementary things for your application .
Based on their stories , physical incidents happened because of workplace conditions .
Ana commented : ‘ The darkroom is really very small , the room is cold and dark ’.
Raul stated : ‘ The dosimeters went over the allowed limit , but this was never known ...’.
Alex : ‘ One is directly exposed to rays , those are daily incidents , besides , the scattered radiation , the secondary radiation , patient radiation ...’.
Gladys : ‘ With those PPEs , we have had several issues : they let the radiation pass ...’.
As for the chemical factors , Alex commented : ‘ The developer and fixer emit fumes ; one had to read the instructions to know that kind of risks and it was always stressful ’.
As for using loads and materializing a biomechanical risk , Gladys said : ‘ Sometimes you must try to sit the patient with the stretcher bearer and the auxiliary , because it is vertical ; so , everyone is exposed ’.
Alex : ‘ It was necessary to use force to move the patient to the stretcher ’.
Alex , like other participants , found themselves alone when providing assistance and stated : ‘ People were not going to say that it was the hospital ’ s fault , but that we were to blame ... People come aggressive despite the fact that one is providing a service .... they blamed me for the consumption of plates ’. Hence , the materialization of psychosocial risks was revealed .
Workplace incidents were a common occurrence ; however , not all were reported either due to ignorance , because they did not generate consequences or disabilities , or due to forgetfulness . Under-reporting was noted in their notification and not all were investigated , since most incidents did not cause apparent injuries and causing them to go unnoticed .