Ponting, Lucie | Features | Health and Safety at Work magazine
Published: 09.06.2008
By definition, emergency workers often face danger at work. But as they go about the daily business of saving lives and protecting people, they now face an extra set of risks in the form of attacks from the public. Lucie Ponting reports on initiatives to protect emergency workers from attack that show early signs of paying off.
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Question: Clinical Waste
What would be your advice regarding inoculations for operators who are involved with the maintenance of equipment being used to process clinical waste? The equipment in question is a lift that picks up clinical waste bins to deposit the waste into an autoclave and there may be a possibility the maintenance operatives could come into contact with 'sharps' etc.
Jun 18 2008 10:14AM
Geoff,
Not really my area of expertise, but this publication from t...
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