“A worker at Dunedin’s recycling plant is facing a nervous six-month wait for blood test results after being pricked by a discarded syringe.

“The incident happened as the woman worked at the Green Island recycling plant last week, sorting through items coming down a conveyor belt as part of the Dunedin City Council’s kerbside collection operation.

http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/193587/dcc-worker-jabbed-dumped-needle

Predictable perhaps, and it’s certainly no surprise that these incidents continue to occur. We have reported incidents such as this many times before on the Clinical Waste Discussion Forum.

We wish the person well.

Just one thing catches the eye in this newspaper report.

Perhaps staged for the photographer, one of the pictures shows a gloved hand hovering over items on the picking line – apparently holding a discarded nappy. However, the other hand, just in shot, is clearly not gloved at all. An accident in the making, for sure.

Making matters worse, this person is holding the unused glove in his hands thus compromising hand hygiene!

Gloves come in pairs. Wear both of them.