Raise awareness about chemicals and health care workers
Tools provide guidance and supportive information for Member States to develop and implement awareness campaigns for health care workers about chemicals of concern and established best practices for safe chemicals management within the health sector, including occupational, patient/community and environmental impacts in health care settings.
Relevant tools
Below is a list of tools relevant for implementing this topic :
- WHO - Chemical Safety Infographics [accessed 2022]
- WHO - Health care waste [2018]
- WHO - Safe management of wastes from health-care activities [2014]
- WHO - Training for health care providers, Mercury [2019]
- WHO - Health and sustainable development: health care activities [accessed 2021]
- WHO - Poison Centres [accessed 2022]
- The IPCS INTOX programme [accessed 2022]