Criterion 1.3.6 Occupational Safety and Health (K3) services

 Criterion 1.3.6

The Community Health Center provides Occupational Safety and Health (K3) services.

1) Main Thoughts:

a) Employees who work at Community Health Centers are at risk of exposure to infections that can cause occupational diseases, work accidents related to work carried out in the service, either directly or indirectly. Therefore, employees have the right to receive health services and protection of their health.

b) A regular health examination program needs to be carried out in accordance with the provisions set by the head of the Community Health Center. Likewise, providing immunizations for employees in accordance with the results of identifying the risk of infectious diseases and programs to protect employees from the transmission of infectious diseases needs to be carried out and reported if exposure occurs. Follow-up health and counseling services need to be prepared and implemented.

c) The K3 program also includes the promotion of employee health and well-being (for example: stress management, healthy lifestyle, monitoring workload, life balance and job satisfaction) as well as preventing work-related diseases.

d) Employees also have the right to receive protection from acts of violence committed by service users, service users' families, or by fellow employees. An employee protection program against physical violence, including reporting processes, follow-up health services, and counseling, needs to be developed and implemented.

e) To implement an employee occupational health and safety program, all staff must understand how they report, how they are treated, and how they receive counseling and follow-up due to injuries, such as needle sticks (injections), exposure to infectious diseases, understand the identification of risks and conditions workplace hazards and other health and safety implementation issues. The program also provides health screenings at the start of employment, regular immunizations and preventive examinations, treatment for common work-related conditions, such as back injuries, or more urgent injuries.

f) The Community Health Center evaluates and follows up on the results of reporting on the implementation of the K3 program for employees. Implementation of K3 follow-up can be integrated with other related health service activities.

g) In implementing the K3 program, the head of the Community Health Center appoints an officer responsible for the K3 program who in his working relationship is under the person responsible for quality. If the Community Health Center does not have adequate human resources, the officer responsible for the K3 program can be concurrently with the officer responsible for other programs, such as facility and safety management (MFK), infection prevention and control (PPI), patient safety (KP), and other.

2) Assessment Elements:

a) An officer responsible for the K3 program and the Puskesmas K3 program is determined and an evaluation is carried out on the implementation of the K3 program (R,D,W).

b) Regular health checks are carried out on employees to maintain employee health in accordance with the program established by the head of the Community Health Center (R, D, W).

c) There is a program and implementation of immunization for employees according to the level of risk in service (R, D, W).

d) If an employee is exposed to an infectious disease, violence or work-related injury, counseling and follow-up are carried out (D,W).