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Introduction: There are limited number of studies focused on the occupational health of Emergency medical health services providers in Saudi Arabia. Moreover, studied conducted in Saudi Arabia focused on either subgroup of health workers such as nurses or assessed certain type of occupational injuries. Thus, we aim to assess comprehensively the prevalence and determinants of work-related injuries among all health workers. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study aimed to assess the prevalence and determinants of work-related injuries among health workers in governmental hospitals in king Faisal Emergency medical health services providers who work in governmental hospitals located in king Faisal. The number of participants required to estimate the prevalence of occupational injuries is calculated to be 282 health service providers. A structured online questionnaire was sent to emergency staff in order to collect data about study variables. The validated version of a questionnaire was obtained with Cronbach’s alpha >0.80 for occupational hazards assessment. Results: The total number of recruited Emergency medical health services providers in this study was 282, all the respondents were males. A half of all Emergency medical health services providers were distributed equally on medical and surgical wards as their current working department. About 98% of the Emergency medical health services providers reported the availability of protocol and safety guidelines for reporting the work injuries in their hospital. About 93% of the Emergency medical health services providers know about the work safe devices and 88% always use work safe devices. This study reported a lifetime occurrence of occupational injuries among Emergency medical health services providers to be 37.6%. The most common reason of this delay in reporting the injury was that works had not been yet used in a patient, followed by patients had no infectious disease of the concern and being busy at that time in 15% and 11.7%, respectively Conclusions: The occurrence of occupational injuries could not be predicted by Emergency medical health services providers’ characteristics such as years of experience, educational level, hours of working and number of patients in the duty. Further qualitative researches are recommended to explore the attitudes and opinions of Emergency medical health services providers regarding the prevention of work injuries injury.