litter picking

A mother has an anxious after a ‘dirty needle’ prick at Frankston Beach near Melbourne. As always, the beach-side area attracts IV drug users who seek some degree of isolation and […]

A Bridgeport, Ct, needle exchange is to end due to funding difficulties. http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/Bridgeport-needle-exchange-faces-layoffs-4691204.php Needle exchange schemes offer clear needles and other injecting necessities including wipes, foil and ascorbic acid power […]

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 […]

There has been an increasing tendency in recent years to downplay the risks of acquiring bloodborne virus infection. Statistics are quoted, showing that in general the risks of acquiring a bloodborne […]

This septic isle?

Once again, this week (22nd to 28th April 2013) is the highlight of the Marine Conservation Society’s fight against marine litter with the Big Beach Clean-up. Over 110 beaches across the […]

An interesting magnetic needle retriever developed by Advanced Medical Innovations. Though intended to pick dropped needles and scalpel blades from the floor of the operating theatre, I wonder is a […]

The consultation on the HSE review of impending sharps safety regulation following EU Council Directive 2010/32/EU is now closed. Currently, IOSH is trumpeting its own submission that proposes, as Blenkharn […]

Basildon Hospital Trust have failed miserably to separate clinical from domestic-type refuse resulting in what is apparently widespread contamination of a Veolia site. Now, hospital porters who volunteered for the […]

The season for flu vaccine is not far away and in the UK alone millions of vaccine doses will be administered, almost every one from a single-use pre-filled syringe. In […]

Calrecycle have reported a collection of sharps-related incidents reported in the news: Boy, 7, pricks himself with a syringe he found on an Oakland play yard Beach Closed After Hypodermic Needles […]