Sentence examples for sharp waste from inspiring English sources

Hypodermic needles cause pain and bleeding, produce biohazardous sharp waste and require trained personnel.

Appropriate sharp waste disposal ensures the safety of the community [ 6].

Studies have shown that a significant proportion (5-28%) of NSIs are due to unsafe sharp waste collection procedures [ 29, 30] and use of safety boxes for collection of sharp waste reduces the risk [ 31].

Proper sharp waste collection and effective protection (including vaccination against hepatitis B) ensures the safety of the provider.

Sharp waste handling within the clinic and the out-of-clinic disposal of this waste is also unsafe, putting the injection providers, as well as the community, at risk of needle sticks[ 9].

The National Heath Policy, 1991 does not address medical waste management, so the issue of medical waste management and environmental health should be addressed in an integrated manner [ 16] because proper sharp waste management is crucial for safe injection practice [ 10].

So they should be disposed as sharp wastes.

Contrary to the lack of health safety training and preventive measures for health waste disposal, none of the staff reported to have suffered injury from sharp wastes.

Waste was transported mostly in open plastic containers from the site of generation to the treatment area and all of the hospitals used safety boxes for collection of sharp wastes.

For the question regarding the disposal of sharp wastes like needle, 46.2% said they break the needle and disposed of it and only 21.9% used needle burner to destroy it, which was the ideal method.

When being asked about the color coding for disposing sharp wastes, about 36.9% said they do not know and only 20.6% said it should be disposed of in blue/white translucent container.