A little bit of knowledge….
A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing. And so it is when the public are fobbed off with headline statements regarding safety that address only one small part […]
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BD launches safety engineered devices campaign, India
To encourage the usage of safety engineered devices, BD is organizing a ‘Santa Says…Stay Sharp Be Safe’ pan India campaign. Aligned with its commitment towards safety of healthcare workers, the […]
Clinical waste disposal in India – how bad can they get?
CHANDIGARH: A task of unclogging drains belched out hundreds of used syringes at Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, on Saturday, indicating that something was wrong in the disposal […]
Police search bags of hospital waste – Dundee
Police have been searching through bags of hospital waste in a bid to find a woman’s clothes as part of a probe into her death. The 50-year-old was found with […]
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 […]
Tackling pollution from pharmaceutical factories
Call for urgent action to tackle environmental pollution at pharmaceutical factories supplying the UK NHS. Together with Changing Markets Foundation, Health Action International (HAI), Health Care Without Harm Europe and the Alliance […]
Is your soap dispenser RACIST?
A video that shows an automatic bathroom soap dispenser failing to detect the hand of a dark-skinned man has gone viral and raised questions about racism in technology, as well […]
FDA Proposes reclassification of Needle Destruction Devices
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), […]
Adelaide mum petitions for secure sharps bin improvement
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 […]
Albania: medical waste dumped on river bank
A medical waste company, Euroteam, has been caught on camera dumping untreated dangerous hospital waste on a river bank in the Tirana outskirts, following an investigation by a television show. […]
Clinical waste piles up at Whipps Cross Hospital
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 […]
Hong Kong clinic fined HK$50,000 for dumping clinical waste
A private clinic in Cheung Sha Wan was fined HK$50,000 (about £5,000) at Kwun Tong Magistrates’ Courts today for contravening the Waste Disposal Regulation. In December last year, Environmental Protection […]
Comprehensive approach to managing sharps danger in Belfast
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 […]
US elementary school student pricks 14 others with needle
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 […]
Alcohol hand sanitizer
Alcohol hand sanitizer is now ubiquitous. It is used right across the healthcare arena, and in the waste sector though its efficacy on dirty hands is severely limited. Since its […]
Lorry carrying clinical waste overturns on motorway bridge
A lorry carrying clinical waste overturned and ended up inches from edge of motorway bridge. The heavy goods vehicle fell on its side on the roundabout overhanging the motorway at […]
Needle find during annual beach clean-up
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 […]
20,000 improperly discarded hypodermic needles
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 […]
Needle bins to be installed in Bodmin public toilets
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 […]
Radioactive contamination of healthcare wastes
Who screens their outgoing and incoming healthcare wastes for radioactive contamination? Now and again, some alarm activations will arise, not perhaps from inappropriate disposal of some radioactive source or lab […]
NHS trust invited to review sharps regulations
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 […]
Dirty Old River
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 […]
Sex toys and medical waste dumped in recycling bins
Southland Disability Enterprises staff find syringes, latex condoms and sex toys on the recycling sorting line. A “strange” number of sex toys and used syringes with blood in them are […]
Clinical Waste Depot Plant Manager, Kent
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Times of India reports clinical waste “recycling”
KOLKATA: Biomedical and hazardous waste is regularly being recycled and sold in open market despite there being specific rules for its segregation, transportation and dumping. The blatant practice was confirmed […]
Ottawa considers needle-dispensing vending machines
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. […]
Possibility of transmission of blood-borne viruses during needle microdermabrasion
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 […]
Three-quarters of councils collect residents’ clinical waste
Three-quarters of local authorities in England collect clinical waste from residents’ homes, a survey has found. The Local Government Association (LGA) received responses from 121 English councils to its Clinical […]
Cardiff drug waste woes
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 […]
Residents’ fears as clinical waste collections are cut
Changes in bin collections in Teignbridge will mean clinical wastes will be collected fortnightly, rather than once a week. Concerns have been raised by residents and councillors after Teignbridge and […]