Needlestick on Australian beach
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 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 mum has spoken of her horror after her son stood on a used drugs needle as he played on a Southend beach. As e have discussed many time previously on […]
Two young lads have suffered near-miss sharps exposures in separate incidents in the UK, in each case while enjoying an outing to play in the park. In Maidenhead, a nine-year-old […]
Needle exchange schemes are controversial. Why should we give needles to addicts? Why spend tax payers money to allow these people to inject themselves? Why in my back yard? Why […]
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, […]
A Sunderland council cleaner faces an anxious wait after a sharps injury incurred while cleaning public toilets in the town centre. The use of effective PPE items is essential, but this […]
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 […]
A Surbiton primary school head teacher was ‘not told’ about an addict’s needle exchange service set up next to his school. He complained that he was not “kept in the loop” about the […]
Local Authorities put lots of money into the creation and maintenance of parks and gardens, as public space for the enjoyment of all, and to keep kids entertained. The latter might […]
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 quite unhelpful impasse has developed following a needle find outside a block of flats in Swansea. A “mountain” of 50 rubbish bags have been left to build up outside […]
“Raghed Sarmad, 32, and her two children, aged seven and eight, spend their days scavenging through piles of rubbish in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, in search of anything they can sell […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In a House of Lords debate on 14 March 2013, Lord Turnburg asked the Government “what is their policy on testing for HIV in patients lacking capacity to give consent following a […]
Litter officers are investigating how bottles of prescription medicines, unused syringes and packets of past-use-by-date pills have ended up in the North Island New Zealand Hutt River. A resident who […]
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 […]
An addict’s needle – just what are the risks? Actually, this is an almost impossible question since the risk depended on the type of needle – wide hollow-bore needles are […]
Many councils are not managing safety effectively, for waste collections and the staff involved, and more generally. Nearly one fifth of local authorities are not following important health and safety […]
Twice in the last 10 days I have had calls from individuals concerned about sharps injury. One, a waste handler working at a domestic waste recycling operation, was concerned that he […]
“A furious mum has sounded a warning after her little boy came within inches of picking up a used needle on a South Tyneside beach. “Two-year-old Lucas Bain had no […]
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 […]
A few minutes away from the main Peshawar hospitals, children rummage through trash, collecting used syringes, sharp blades and blood bags. These children are gathering medical waste from garbage dumps […]
The most recent national estimates suggest that around 216,000 individuals are chronically infected with hepatitis C (HCV) in the UK. A proportion of these, especially those on the farthest periphery of society […]
A report from the US tells of an accidental spillage of sharps waste from a truck. “The driver was on a routine route was unaware that a five gallon and […]
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 […]