Tennessee making a point on sharps injury prevention enforcement
OSHA Healthcare Connection, March 6, 2007
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Reducing sharps injuries in healthcare is the focus of a targeted inspection initiative by the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration (TOSHA).
"During inspections over the past few years, TOSHA has observed in a significant number of medical facilities a failure to comply with sharps injury prevention provisions of the bloodborne pathogen standard," said John Winkler, Administrator of TOSHA in a February 27 news release. "Occupational exposure to bloodborne pathogens from needlesticks and other sharps injuries is a serious problem, but it is usually preventable."
The TOSHA initiative is a two-phase program. Last year the agency conducted seminars to prepare healthcare facilities on working safely with bloodborne pathogens, including sharps injury prevention procedures and techniques. This year hospitals and ambulatory surgical treatment centers will be the target of statewide inspections, according to TOSHA.
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