Shooting up: A warning for waste handlers
The Health Protection Agency have released a new Public Health England report, “Shooting Up, the annual report on infections among people who inject drugs (PWID) in the United Kingdom, has […]
The Health Protection Agency have released a new Public Health England report, “Shooting Up, the annual report on infections among people who inject drugs (PWID) in the United Kingdom, has […]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday proposed reclassifying the needle destruction device, renamed as “sharps needle destruction device,” from a Class III device into Class II (special controls), […]
A mother whose daughter was cut by a used syringe when she put her hand on an open sharps deposit box says children remain at risk of contracting deadly diseases […]
A 14-year-old boy has been charged after two children were pricked by a used syringe in the delicatessen section of a supermarket. Two children, including an infant boy, were pricked […]
Healthcare workers are regularly faced with needlestick injuries (NSI) and while it might not be a standout issue, the financial implications across the NHS are damning. According to the NHS […]
Piles of clinical waste bags were left to mount up outside a hospital as vital workers went on strike against “slave-like” working conditions and zero-hours contracts. A porter revealed shocking […]
A needle that automatically caps itself after use has attracted interest from manufacturers to mass-produce them from less than NT$3 per unit. The medical device that automatically caps needles after use, […]
Belfast residents have become concerned over the increase in needles and drug paraphernalia being found in public places across the city. Not unusual, since most towns and cities face similar […]
A San Francisco Bay Area school district advised the families of 14 elementary school students to take their children to doctors after another student pricked them with a needle, a […]
Children seem to have a magnetic affinity for discarded sharps, picking them up and stabbing themselves, or standing on them to the distress of themselves and their family. In China […]
Charity Transform has released a map showing needles reported across the city and there are a few surprising hotspots. http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/map-shows-every-discarded-needle-44354 Inevitably, this is just the tip of the iceberg, and […]
A 4-year old has had an HIV test and Mum now has an anxious 3-6 month wait for clearance after stepping on and being struck by a discarded needle in […]
Horrified volunteers cleaning up Booterstown Reserve had a lucky escape at the weekend when one of them came across a used syringe at the south Dublin beauty spot. The dirty […]
More than 20,000 improperly discarded hypodermic needles retrieved in Boston in one year. That’s a statistic that nobody would wish to have. The City of Boston Mobile Sharps team picked […]
Bodmin will soon see sharps disposal bins installed in public toilets across the town, in what the council says is a response to the increase in the number of used […]
An NHS Trust has been invited to take part in the Health and Safety Executive’s review of the sharps regulations, after it became one of four trusts out of 40 […]
The Deputy Lord Mayor of Cork has called for the removal of a specialised bin that was installed in the city for drug users to dispose of needles. Two heavy-duty containers […]
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is currently undertaking a post-implementation review (PIR) of the Health and Safety (Sharp Instruments in Healthcare) Regulations 2013 (referred to as Sharps Regulations). […]
Memorable as the opening line of The Kinks classic Waterloo Sunset, “Dirty Old River” seems as true as ever. Now, London volunteers find 1,000 dirty needles a year in a […]
Needle-dispensing vending machines could be installed at five locations across central Ottawa, making it the first city in Canada to offer sterile syringes in machines to reduce drug-related virus transmission. […]
A series of needlestick injuries associated with needle microdermabrasion are being investigated by Public Health England (PHE). Needle microdermabrasion is a cosmetic procedure that, in recent years, has become […]
Continuing the policy of listing those research papers and other published works that we have found to be of relevance and particular interest, we have now compiled the list of […]
A Droitwich mum and her son have been left with an anxious wait after her son cut his finger open on a used hypodermic needle which was in a bush […]
Children are being put at risk by drug users needles left strewn around a Cardiff residential area. Residents in Butetown, Cardiff, have been left angry and worried by the increasing […]
Syringes are littering Hong Kong beaches. Thankfully, some good people are trying to gather and remove these, and putting pressure on the authorities to reduce or even eliminate this pollution. Regrettably however, […]
A hospital worker toils for about 12 hours a day to earn a decent living for his family. Now, imagine he accidentally gets pricked by a syringe or needle of […]
There is a vast number of hazards associated with any demolition or renovation site. Here is another one! A construction firm working on a new £4.5 million city centre hotel has […]
Needlestick or sharps injury is an obvious risk for ALL waste handlers, not only those who might handle clinical wastes. These injuries, together with other cuts and grazes, add to the […]
Not only in America, though predictably most of the considerable number of reports of needles hidden in Halloween treats once again come from the US. What a world we live […]
Sharps “lost” in hospital laundry had been a widespread and common problem, though these days we hear so little about it. Has it really got any better? Sharps dropped into […]