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Can anyone advise if there is a standard, requirement or recommendation to have sharps containers available in public and staff toilets in hospitals?
What is the practice at other sites?
Many thanks
Regards
Janet
Janet Wallace
Clinical Nurse Consultant
Infection Control – Infection Management and Prevention Service (IMPS)Children’s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service
Level 12, Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital
Children’s Health Queensland
South Brisbane QLD 4101T: 07 3068 3989 / mobile 0408 236 266
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Hi Janet,
There is no Standard or regulation that requires hospitals to fit sharps
containers (SC) to hospital toilets. It is up to the hospitals own policy.
However, there is a trend nationally and internationally to fit them to
public toilets to assist syringe-users (legal or otherwise) to dispose of
their syringes safely. Most SC suppliers have security models if
pilfering is seen as an issue.I would be interested to hear how many members hospitals have SC fitted to
their public toilets.Kind regards, Terry
Terry Grimmond FASM, BAgrSc, GrDpAdEd
Consultant Microbiologist
Grimmond and Associates
Ph (NZ): +64 7 855 3212
Mob (NZ): +64 274 365 140
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*Subject:* sharps containers in public tioletsHi
Can anyone advise if there is a standard, requirement or recommendation to
have sharps containers available in public and staff toilets in hospitals?What is the practice at other sites?
Many thanks
Regards
Janet
*Janet Wallace*
Clinical Nurse Consultant
Infection Control Infection Management and Prevention Service (IMPS)
Childrens Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service
Level 12, Lady Cilento Childrens Hospital
Childrens Health Queensland
South Brisbane QLD 4101
T: 07 3068 3989 / mobile 0408 236 266
E: janet.wallace@health.qld.gov.au
W: http://www.childrens.health.qld.gov.au
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