[Best practice in risk management of Neisseria meningitidis bacterial meningitis at nurseries]

G Ital Med Lav Ergon. 2012 Jul-Sep;34(3 Suppl):769-71.
[Article in Italian]

Abstract

In many contexts is often underestimated the biological risk and schools can be an example. Proof of this is the exclusion of work in the school from the example of the work activities of biohazard included in Annex XLIV of Legislative Decree 81/08. Our work proposes a protocol for risk management meningitis contagious in the specific environment of the nursery taking a cue from the specific experience gained by the Service of Prevention and Protection Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital following the course accreditation Joint Commision. This is primary prevention measures (training and information) and secondary (vaccination, reporting of suspected cases, chemoprophylaxis of contacts, contact tracing, counseling) to be applied consistently even and especially in the absence of sick people, at which time the shares are aimed exclusively to control its spread to be taken and monitored, with the cooperation of all subject involved in various capacities in the protection of the health of workers, within these specific working environments.

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Meningitis, Meningococcal / prevention & control*
  • Nurseries, Infant*
  • Risk Management*