The hospital environment is the main place of occurrence of work accidents with exposure to biological material (ATMB), so it is highlighted that the nursing team is considered within the health area, the occupancy most affected by such accidents. This is due to the diversified practice of procedures, extensive working hours, exposure to different biological risks, and to perform activities in direct contact with patients. Thus, it can be considered that ATMB is a Public Health problem. The objective was to identify the sociodemographic profile and the professional category within the nursing team that is most affected by ATMB in the hospital environment. This was a retrospective bibliographical survey of the last 10 years of articles published in full, in Portuguese, indexed in the LILACS and SciELO databases, using as descriptors: work accident with exposure to biological material, nursing team, profile sociodemographic. For this research, 28 articles were selected from the inclusion / exclusion criteria. It was observed that the majority of the professionals of the nursing team were female, in the age group between 20 and 50 years; they become more vulnerable to the occurrence of diseases such as occupational diseases and ATMB. Nursing technicians and auxiliaries were the categories most affected by ATMB due to the higher incidence in the nursing team within the hospital environment. Thus preventive measures should be implemented as continuing education, safe practices, lectures on biosafety and motivational courses will be educational measures to minimize and / or eliminate the occurrence of ATMB.