Authors : Jimmy Mena

Volume/Issue : Volume 5 - 2020, Issue 12 - December

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Abstract : Sharps injuries are second mostly to lifting and handling injuries in the range of workplace risks encountered by healthcare staff on a regular basis. A significant number of UK healthcare staff has contracted both Hepatitis C and HIV. The real and possible effect of serious injury on individuals and companies are far greater than purely statistical vulnerability Seroconversion of the blood-borne virus. Efforts in the past In order to avoid sharp accidents, the emphasis was on improving behaviors; Prevention is the focus of the current laws and there are now clear standards to be followed. Sharps accidents are commonly accepted as having been recorded. They are too frequently viewed as a repulsive occurrence. Occupational vulnerability when working in healthcare. However the violence of such injury may not be a better contrast to the clinical intentions of healthcare workers. They are too commonly seen as a repulsive occurrence that presents an occupational risk when employed in healthcare. The brutality of such injury, however, may not be a greater contrast to Therapeutic intentions of healthcare practitioners