Local Authority sharps health & safety document
The Midlothian Council sharps health & safety document is excellent and worth a review when updating your own local authority documentation. It is brief and to the point, clear and […]
The Midlothian Council sharps health & safety document is excellent and worth a review when updating your own local authority documentation. It is brief and to the point, clear and […]
‘Terrified’ boy knelt on used needle at Bude Park Primary School in Hull Boy pricked by discarded needle on B.C. schoolyard Woman says son stepped on hypodermic needle at hotel […]
A 16-year-old US boy found a hypodermic needle in his Christmas present! On Christmas morning, he put on a navy blue hoodie sweatshirt he’d just received as a gift; when he put […]
Parents of a Dalbeattie primary school warned to be vigilant after a used needle was found in the school grounds. Parents have been told to watch for dirty needles after […]
A Huddersfield designer has developed a ‘Lifesaver’ syringe that changes colour to deep red within a minute of removal from its sterile wrapper, to warn that it is not sterile […]
We have reported many needle find incidents recently, and that is barely the tip of a very big iceberg. So, as data accumulates concerning reported needle finds, can anything be […]
A Braintree mum is disgusted after finding a discarded needle in a county park. She was taking a walk around the lakes at Great Notley Country Park, popular with young families, […]
Most communities show concern about discarded needles and other drug paraphernalia. It is quite understandable; drug litter is a clear sign of increasing social and economic decline, generally associated with […]
An Australian lady faces a long and agonising wait for an all-clear after a needlestick injury from a hypodermic needle left in the mailbox outside her home in Hampton, Victoria. “[She] was […]
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 […]
A drug addict who threatened to stab a security guard with a syringe when she was caught shoplifting has been spared prison because she has a nine-month-old son. Lyndsey George, 22, tried […]
It seems there is no end to the places that IV dug users will try to hide their needles and syringes, often placing others in danger of a sharps injury in […]
Three students at a Hobart primary school have been found pricking each other with a syringe they found outside a doctor’s surgery. The incident is the fourth in as many […]
Blenkharn Environmental have previously published the detail results of nationwide audits of clinical waste (including sharps) collections for domiciliary producers and of discarded drug litter by and on behalf of […]
Echoing in some part this report from US, a Dundee IV drug user placed Police officers at risk of sharps injury and infection when he failed to disclose he had an uncapped needle […]
Addiction to steroid drugs in Ireland is increasing, though those who take them don’t identify themselves as drug users. http://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/steroid-drug-use-on-the-increase-in-ireland-study-of-drug-users-in-dublin-has-found-1.1409012 Profiling more than 300 drug users who used services at […]
A 12-year-old boy was pierced by a syringe tip at Cowell Beach, Santa Cruz, on Sunday afternoon after he and another boy were playing with it The boy’s father took […]
Those who, despite our many warnings, dismiss the risk of Hepatitis C and other BBV infections from needles discarded by IV dug users (IVDUs) tend to ignore the statistics, of high […]
Safety sharps are being widely introduced in the UK, late, but better late than never. For establishments using fully automated safety needle and syringe devices that sheath or fully retract […]
I have long-favoured the quite common, though not universal, US approach that places sharps bins in publicly accessible locations to permit drop-off of used sharps by diabetics and others. In the absence […]
Ireland has not been backward at making the most of EU laws and subsidies though it has now found itself in deep financial peril as a consequence. But less advantageous though […]