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Using the sanitation safety planning tool to improve the occupational health and safety of de-sludging operators in Uganda: a protocol for a controlled before and after study

2022-07-05

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<h4>Background</h4> De-sludging operators play a critical role in ensuring access to safe sanitation services. De-sludging activities, however, increase the operators’ risk of exposure to physical, chemical, ergonomic, psychological, and biological hazards, which eventually affect their health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Despite immense exposure to occupational hazards, only a few evidence-based interventions...

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Literature Corpus work: 9358cca1-002a-5dd0-bb43-3153730c9beb
DOI: 10.1101/2022.07.01.22277149

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