Abstract

Objectives: Globally, poor occupational health and safety results in 271 million work related injuries. In countries like Ethiopia, the risk of having work-related injury is 10 to 20 times higher than developed counties. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and associated factors of occupational injury/disease among workers in Nekemte Referral Hospital. Cross-sectional study was conducted on 165 samples from December 2015 to January 2016. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 20. Adjusted odds ratio with 95% CI was used to measure associations in multivariate logistic regression analysis.

Results: A total of 161 study subject studied with response rate of 97.58%. Occupational injury prevalence rate in the last 12 months was 66% and respondents infected with different type of disease were 51%. Injury was associated with hand washing practices and scalpel cut. Nasocomial infection was associated with gender (AOR=2.679, 95% CI: 1.159-6.193), service years (AOR=4.272, 95% CI: 1.448-12.607) and working hours (AOR=4.791, 95% CI: 1.710-13.424). This high injury and nasocomial infection implies a need for due attention safety and infection prevention the study area and hospitals..