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| 76 | National colour coding encodes the treatment route rather than the hazard. The English scheme, set out in Health Technical Memorandum 07-01 and adopted widely in the United Kingdom, is representative: | 76 | National colour coding encodes the treatment route rather than the hazard. The English scheme, set out in Health Technical Memorandum 07-01 and adopted widely in the United Kingdom, is representative: |
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| + | 78 | === Fill limits and their rationale === | |
| + | 79 | The three-quarters fill convention exists to preserve headroom, so that a sharp can be dropped in without contact with the contents and so that the container closes without compression. Injury reports associated with overfilled containers describe two mechanisms: contact with protruding sharps at the aperture, and puncture through the container wall when a full container is compressed during closure or transport.{{r|epinet,iso23907}} | |
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| + | 81 | The fill line is a marked feature under ISO 23907-1, which makes overfilling an observable rather than a judgement-based failure. Guidance therefore treats reaching the line as the trigger for closure regardless of elapsed time, and separately imposes a maximum period a container may remain open — commonly three months in United Kingdom practice — to limit the interval over which contents accumulate.{{r|htm0701}} | |
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| 78 | == References == | 83 | == References == |
| 79 | {{reflist}} | 84 | {{reflist}} |
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| 87 | <ref name="epinet">International Safety Center. ''EPINet Sharps Injury and Blood and Body Fluid Exposure Surveillance Report'' (annual series).</ref> | 92 | <ref name="epinet">International Safety Center. ''EPINet Sharps Injury and Blood and Body Fluid Exposure Surveillance Report'' (annual series).</ref> |
| 88 | <ref name="fda_sharps">US Food and Drug Administration. "Safely Using Sharps (Needles and Syringes) at Home, at Work and on Travel" — consumer and device guidance, current revision.</ref> | 93 | <ref name="fda_sharps">US Food and Drug Administration. "Safely Using Sharps (Needles and Syringes) at Home, at Work and on Travel" — consumer and device guidance, current revision.</ref> |
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| + | 95 | == See also == | |
| + | 96 | * [[Subcutaneous injection]] | |
| + | 97 | * [[Insulin syringe]] | |
| + | 98 | * [[Syringe dead space]] | |
| + | 99 | * [[Injection site rotation]] | |
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| 90 | {{DEFAULTSORT:Sharps disposal}} | 101 | {{DEFAULTSORT:Sharps disposal}} |