PHYSICAL HAZARDS definition:

factors within the environment that can harm the body

without necessarily touching it.

Types of occupational physical hazards:

excessive levels of noise

vibration
illumination
temperature
ionizing and non- ionizing electromagnetic radiation

Magnitude:

A health care facility is a workplace as well as a place for

receiving and giving care. Health care facilities around the
world employ over 59 million workers who are exposed to
a complex variety of health and safety hazards everyday
including: physical hazards, such as noise, radiation, slips
trips and falls.

Protecting the occupational health of health workers is

critical to having an adequate workforce of trained and
healthy health personnel.