Antineoplastic Therapy Services: worker safety and chemical risk

Abstract

Updated study with the purpose of making a survey of the necessary actions for a safe practice in Antineoplastic Therapy Services (ATS), in the perspective of protecting worker’s health in relation to chemical occupational risk present in the work environment, while maneuvering Antineoplastic Chemotherapy (AQ). Safety practices were categorized in relative to professionals; handling of AQ; individual and collective; use of materials; transport of AQ; application of AQ; discard of toxic waste; environmental dumping and personal contamination and patient handling, based on benchmarks of National Institute of Cancer (NICA), and of BONASSA and SANTANA, and of Collegiate Directory Resolution (CDR) 220. The theoretical framework on the subject provides subsidies to safety actions and practices, pointing to ideal and legal work conditions and instrumenting the ATS workers for the conscious and risk-free labor exercise