Healthcare organizations are finding that increased patient volumes combined with employee exhaustion and supply chain disruptions can erode safety culture and contribute to issues with routine ...

Here are 10 recent Becker’s Operating Room Clinical Quality & Infection Control reports on sharps safety and OSHA which include tools you can download for use by your organization and resources you ...

Approximately one-fifth of medical undergraduate students, 21.4 percent, reported needlesticks and sharps injuries during their training, according to a study published in the American Journal of ...

Sharps are those instruments when intact or broken have the ability to, cut, scratch or pierce the skin or breach mucus membranes. Used or infectious sharps are sharps that have been in contact with ...

Sharps Compliance, a provider of solutions designed for the proper management of medical waste, has launched a Web-based compliance and training program designed to improve worker safety while ...

In over 20 years as a safety professional, many scenarios have presented persistent and preventable risks. One of the most concerning is exposure to bloodborne pathogens (BBPs) in healthcare settings.

In this context, a sharp can be defined as any dental instrument that has the potential to cause a penetrating injury to the skin. When contaminated with body fluids, a percutaneous injury is classed ...