Sharps disposal: difference between revisions
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| 131 | Two procedural rules predate device engineering and remain in force. Needles are not to be recapped by hand, because recapping requires bringing the point toward a hand; where recapping is unavoidable a one-handed technique is specified. And sharps are not to be passed between people or left on surfaces, but placed directly into a container at the point of use, which requires that a container be present there.{{r|osha1910,elder2006}} | 131 | Two procedural rules predate device engineering and remain in force. Needles are not to be recapped by hand, because recapping requires bringing the point toward a hand; where recapping is unavoidable a one-handed technique is specified. And sharps are not to be passed between people or left on surfaces, but placed directly into a container at the point of use, which requires that a container be present there.{{r|osha1910,elder2006}} |
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| + | 133 | Devices used with reconstituted peptides are frequently ordinary insulin syringes without safety features, which are outside occupational frameworks because their use is not occupational. The upstream measure available in that setting is therefore procedural rather than engineered, and the injury-mechanism evidence in §Hazard basis is the relevant literature.{{r|epinet}} | |
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| 133 | == References == | 135 | == References == |
| 134 | {{reflist}} | 136 | {{reflist}} |