Chicken flocks have a high incidence of Salmonella carriage. When a sharps or needlestick injury occurs during vaccination of the flock, the consequences can be considerable. Salmonella soft tissue infection […]
Needlestick injury coverage A needlestick injury can result in the transmission of a serious bloodborne pathogen. Employers must ensure they have essential coverage for employees’ treatment costs and lost wages […]
A court in Ireland has awarded a hospital worker 10,000 Euros for an injury from a used COVID-19 vaccination needle stick to a middle finger. We don’t know the circumstances […]
The Health and Safety Executive are not presently blessed with a reputation for efficiency, cherry-picking a few targets and concentrating on what might be considered the low hanging fruit in […]
A number of Rotary Clubs in Mongolia and the United States and grant makers, collaborate to purchase locally made sharps containers (biohazard boxes for sharp medical waste) made in Mongolia […]
US researchers are developing metal detector systems for hospital laundry systems in order to catch safely ‘lost’ equipment items and needles. How sad that this is necessary but hospital laundry […]
Good news today, that the two military healthcare team members recently repatriated to London have been released from their 21 day quarantine in good health. This is excellent news, and […]
A thief has been jailed for four years after he grappled with the security guard at a Middlesbrough supermarket. As a result of the incident, a supermarket security guard is still […]
The Midlothian Council sharps health & safety document is excellent and worth a review when updating your own local authority documentation. It is brief and to the point, clear and […]
When you have to go, finding a public toilet can be a problem. There might be some signage but if not pop into a department store or railway station. But […]
Disneyworld Orlando attracts millions of visitors from the US and elsewhere. With other Disneyworld outlets it is a major global brand and must accept that some of its visitors will […]
What to give your girlfriend for Christmas? It’s a perennial problem, but one that can go so badly wrong. And so it was for the idiot young man in Cornwall, […]
A Dundee family face an agonising six-month wait after their young son was pricked by a used needle on a bus. The six-year-old boy was injured following an incident aboard […]
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 hospital porter who was pricked by a used syringe at University Hospital Limerick was unable to enjoy “the privileges of marriage” for a year after the incident, his barrister […]
“Last year saw the highest number of needlestick or sharps injuries among hospital doctors in at least five years, internal HSE Ireland figures show. “In 2009, the HSE recorded 102 […]
Safe in Common has issued a list of “10 Golden Rules” of safety relating to the design, implementation and use of safety sharps. The design and activation of the […]
The implementation of UK legislation to enable compliance with Council Directive 2010/32/EU is now in place and so many organisations are working hard to prepare guidance notes for healthcare providers. […]
Non-consensual testing after needlestick injury is an increasingly important issue for many healthcare workers, and also for police, prison officers and others who have suffered a sharps injury with a needle from […]
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 […]
To promote safer injecting and to minimise harm Warwickshire’s Drug and Alcohol Action Team have developed new stickers for sharps boxes. The stickers have been designed to signpost people to […]
Sharps or needlestick injury carries with it, in some circumstances, a predictable risk of bloodborne virus infection. The statistics, from which risk can be calculated, are well known and relate to the “average” used […]
Sharps waste recycling, and indeed recycling of materials including ATT-processed plastics, latex and metals from non-sharps waste must be an environmentally sound option when compared with incineration alone. It is […]
In a perhaps bizarre legal move, manufacturers of sharps and pharmaceutical companies that make drugs used in the sharps in the state of Minnesota have until July 1, 2011, to share required […]