One unlucky needle stick, and you’re dead. For about 20 years, many medical workers have faced the threat each day as they used needles to draw blood, inject medicine, give immunizations or insert ...

(NAPSI)—More than 5.6 million healthcare personnel in the U.S. are at risk of occupational exposure to blood-borne pathogens like HIV and hepatitis C. Needlestick injuries are sustained by 1,000 ...

Safe in Common, a non-profit organization of healthcare safety advocates, announced it will introduce the Needlestick Safety Advocacy Tour as part of its sponsorship of the 45th annual American ...

Safe in Common presented an online conference in November 2012 called "The Unfinished Agenda" to address the issue of sharps safety. The event featured live discussion as well as prerecorded ...

Safety injection devices, such as safety syringes and safety needles are designed to eliminate needlestick injuries while also increasing the safety of drug administration. Here are five things to ...

A few decades ago, a needlestick or sharps injury was the most feared workplace hazard in nursing. This fear was primarily founded on the risk for acquisition of HIV, a risk that was responsible for ...

A federal law intended to protect healthcare workers from accidental needlesticks has slashed the number of such injuries by more than 100,000 annually and is producing a yearly cost savings of up to ...

Susan A. Dolan, RN, MS, CIC, public policy committee chair of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, spoke at an American Nurses Association event marking the 10-year ...

Many U.S. hospitals have been slow to comply with the federal Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act, which unanimously passed both houses of Congress last year and was signed into law by former ...

Safe in Common will launch the Needlestick Safety Advocacy Tour to promote education, awareness and stronger federal standards for needlestick prevention and safety. Read the full report in Becker’s ...

Just five days before it was to go into effect, OSHA announced that the revised version of its bloodborne pathogens standard would take effect today, as originally scheduled. The changes to OSHA''s ...