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  2. Needlestick injury - Wikipedia

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    Needlestick injuries are among the top three injuries that occur among material-recovery facility workers who sort through trash to remove recyclable items from the community-collected garbage. [41] Housekeeping and janitorial workers in public sites, including hotels, airports, indoor and outdoor recreational venues, theaters, retails stores ...

  3. Needle and syringe programmes - Wikipedia

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    The British public body, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), introduced a recommendation in April 2014 due to an increase in the number of young people who inject steroids at UK needle exchanges. NICE previously published needle exchange guidelines in 2009, in which needle and syringe services were not advised for ...

  4. Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences ...

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    The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013, often known by the acronym RIDDOR, is a 2013 statutory instrument of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It regulates the statutory obligation to report deaths , injuries , diseases and "dangerous occurrences", including near misses, that take place at work or in ...

  5. Post-exposure prophylaxis - Wikipedia

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    The recommendations were replaced with an updated guideline in 2016. [17] Occupational exposures include needlestick injury of health care professionals from an HIV-infected source. In 2012, the US DHHS included guidelines on occupational PEP (oPEP) use for individuals with HIV exposures occurring in health care settings. [18]

  6. Police officer safety and health - Wikipedia

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    According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) 3.8%-8% of police officers in the United States have reported sustaining a needlestick or sharps injury. [6] These type of injuries often occur during such activities as performing an arrest, searching property or being involved in a take-down. [6]

  7. Occupational toxicology - Wikipedia

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    Occupational toxicology has the challenge of performing studies that mimic actual workplace conditions, for which inhalation exposure and dermal exposure are most important, [1] [2] although in medical industries, injection exposure through needlestick injuries is a hazard. [4]

  8. Ebola in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Healthcare workers who in January 2015 had sustained needlestick injuries while caring for Ebola patients abroad were put under medical observation, but not found to have contracted the Ebola virus. [29] [30] [31] On 16 March 2015, another UK worker had been sent back to the United Kingdom from Sierra Leone due to fear of having contracted the ...

  9. Occupational injury - Wikipedia

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    For example, there is limited needlestick injury awareness among agriculture workers, and there is a need for comprehensive programs to prevent needlestick injuries on livestock operations. [28] Proper animal handling techniques and training, or stockmanship, can also decrease the risk of livestock injury.