Author contribution: Myznikova IA — determination of the level of sanitary literacy of the employees working at facilities exposed to epidemiological hazards, literature review, collection and analysis of literary sources, article authoring and editing; Mehantiev II, Stepkin YuI — organization of primary data collection, article editing; Nenakhov IG — article editing. All authors confirm conformity of their parts to the international ICMJE criteria (all authors have made a significant contribution to the development of study's concept, its conduct, and article authoring; all authors have read and approved the final version thereof before publication).

Compliance with ethical standards: the study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Burdenko Voronezh State Medical University (protocol No. 1 dated February 29, 2024). The respondents were informed about the purpose of the study (the informed consent paper prepared and distributed).