Safety sharps, or not?
It should be a no-brainer. Everyone uses a safety-engineered safety sharps device and the era of sharps injury will be at an end. Or perhaps not? There are many sources […]
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HSE sharps injury
Having studiously ignored sharps injury for years, resisting all attempts to make sharps injury a mandatory reporting event under RIDDOR and so prompt investigation of ‘hot spots’ of poor sharps […]
Scandal of hospital porter ‘cut by used needles’
A whistleblowing hospital porter who was ‘slashed’ three times by used medical equipment has lifted the lid on Basildon Hospital’s crisis with potentially hazardous contaminated waste. Stephen Courtnell says he had […]
Sharps injury – what about blades?
We are more aware than ever before of the risks of sharps injury. Safety needles, retractable devices or passive covers, sharps bins and boxes, even new EU and, eventually, UK […]