Resources
Below you will find extensive resources on sharps safety and occupational exposure prevention: tools for conducting exposure surveillance, a list of safety-engineered sharp devices, statistics and benchmarking figures on percutaneous injuries, research articles, and a wealth of other information. We hope you find them of value whatever your role or affiliation--individual healthcare worker, researcher, device manufacturer, government worker, policy analyst, or member of a healthcare professional group or union. In particular, we hope healthcare employers, in the U.S. and other countries, find them useful as they work to reduce sharps injury risk in their facilities and comply with relevant occupational safety laws, policies, and guidelines.
Be sure to look as well at the extensive links to relevant U.S. government resources (OSHA, NIOSH, CDC, etc.) and other organizations under "Links" (above).
Safety Device List
List of safety-engineered devices designed to prevent needlesticks/blood and body fluid exposures to healthcare workers; updated regularly.
EPINet Links
Links to EPINet related information, reports and forms.