[Occupational injuries with biological risk]

The aim of the present study was to identify the way the occupational injuries with biological risk can happen in order to find the right measures of prevention and protection and to periodically verify their efficacy. The study started in January 1996 and ended in December 2001 and included 2750 subjects working in the sanitary field. A module (module A), was created to collect all the accident data. For every occupational injury with biological risk, a specific procedure is activated, including: Emergency Room, Sanitary Direction, Infective Diseases Division, Competent Physician. The injuries were classified, according to: sex, age, work qualify, division, object causing injury, modality, anatomical location, type of injury, working turn, and time phase. Most of the division underlined a higher risk the procedures that expose the subjects to accidental punctures with infected needle, such as injection therapy, blood tests, butterfly insertion and removal, etc. Old and bad attitudes, such as needle recapping are still used, even if the law is clear. None occupational injury showed serum conversion. It could be a consequence of the post exposition prophylaxis performed by the infectivologists and of the HBV prophylaxis.