Europe Resource Page

for healthcare worker safety and
occupational exposure prevention

• Bibliography
  
  
• Policy and legislation related to healthcare
  worker safety
  
  
• Training resources
  
  
• EPINet Needlestick and Blood Exposure Surveillance Program:
  Versions are currently available for Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, U.K. Click here.
  
  
• Relevant links and organizations:
  
  
• • EU Framework Agreement on sharps safety, signed by HOSPEEM and EPSU July 17, 2009
    
    
  • European Agency for Health and Safety at Work
  • • E-Facts: Risk assessment and needlestick injuries
      
      
  • European Healthcare Workers at Risk: A Call for Action (joint resolution by European and international associations, including the European Federation of Nurses, calling for EU action to prevent sharps injuries; includes data from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and U.K.) 
    
    
  • EucoMed (medical technology industry association in Europe)
    
    
  • EucoMed position paper on preventing sharps injuries
    
    
  • EurAsia Health Knowledge Network (includes resources in Russian)
    
    
  • European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
    
    
  • European Federation of Nurses
    • EFN Position Paper on the Prevention of Sharps Injuries
    • European Healthcare Workers at Risk
    • Prevention of Sharps Injuries (EFN policy statement)
    • Safe Needles Save Lives (joint statement with International Council of Nurses)
      
      
  • European Industrial Relations Observatory On-line (EIROnline
  • • Agreement on preventing sharp instrument injuries at work in healthcare sector (9-16-09)
      
      
  • European Union
  • • EU Public Health
    • European Agency for Health and Safety at Work
    • European Agency for Health and Safety at Work: Report - Expert forecast on Emerging Biological Risks related to Occupational Safety and Health
    • European Parliament - resolution: Protecting European healthcare workers from blood borne infections due to needle stick injuries
      
      
  • EuRoPEP (European Registry of Post-Exposure Prophylaxis)
    
    
  • France
    • GERES: Groupe d'etude sur le risque d'exposition des soignants
      
      
    • Surveillance des accidents avec exposition au sang dans les établissements de santé français en 2005 (GERES & INVS)
      
      
  • Germany
    • Coordinating Group on Biological Agents/Koordinierungskreis für Biologische Arbeitsstoffe (KOBAS)
      
      
    • Effectiveness of measures to prevent needlestick injuries among employees in health professions (report from BGIA - Berufsgenossenschaftliches Institut für Arbeitsschutz)
      
      
    • TRBA 250 (Technische Regel für Biologische Arbeitsstoffe 250)
      
      
  • Health First Europe - healthcare worker safety page
    
    
  • How to Avoid Needlestick Injuries - International Hospital Federation Reference Book 2006/2007 (includes data from Germany)
    
    
  • European Commission - Public Health: Standardization of management of occupational exposure to HIV/blood-borne infections and evaluation of post-exposure prophylaxis in Europe (2000)
    
    
  • Spain:  Guía técnica para la evaluación y prevención de los riesgos relacionados con la exposición a agentes biológicos (Guide for technical evaluation and prevention of risks related to biological agents) - National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health at Work, Madrid, 2001
    
    
  • U.K.:
  • • Health Protection Agency
      • Bloodborne viruses and occupational exposure
      • Epidemiological data - bloodborne viruses and occupational exposures
      • Eye of the Needle: Surveillance of Significant Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne Viruses in Healthcare Workers (Centre for Infections - England, Wales and Northern Ireland; seven-year report: January 2005)
      • Publications - bloodborne viruses and occupational exposures
      • Surveillance of occupational exposures to healthcare workers
      • UK Advisory Panel for healthcare workers infected with bloodborne viruses
        
        
    • Health and Safety Executive
    • • Needle-stick injuries
        
        
    • Royal College of Nursing
      • Good Practice in Infection Prevention and Control: Guidance for Nursing Staff (2005)