[MCOH-EH] BBP Safer Sharps

[william hyman]

>
>    1. Re:  BBP Safer Sharps (Dr Amber H Mitchell)
>
> As Dr, Mitchell  and I have discussed between us before, if 52% of
> injuries are non-safety then 48% are with (so called) safety. Part of that
> 48% is associated with non-activation, which is a serious issue. But
> another part is with activation, ie activating the device did not prevent
> the injury, or maybe even caused the injury. This is also a serious issue
> and it means that activating  some devices may not be a safe thing to do.
> This may be a link to the non-activations, ie people don't activate some
> devices because they correctly perceive that doing so can be dangerous.
>

   Not all devices named or designated as safety are actually safe when
used by real people in      the real environment of use. There can be a
difference between the apparent capability of some  devices to render the
sharp safe and whether this will actually occur on a consistent basis.
 Seemingly safe when demonstrated is not always good enough.

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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 19:27:33 +0000
> From: Dr Amber H Mitchell
>         <amber.mitchell at internationalsafetycenter.org>
> To: MCOH/EH <mcoh-eh at mylist.net>
> Subject: Re: [MCOH-EH] BBP Safer Sharps
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> Therese,
>
> For our EPINet network of hospitals, we do capture information for each
> incident from the injured healthcare worker:
>
> ?If the sharp had no integral safety feature, do you have an opinion that
> such a feature could have prevented the injury?? and
> ?Do you have an opinion that any other engineering control, administrative
> or work practice could have prevented the injury??
>
> We haven?t released 2015 to the public yet, but here is 2014.  We?ve
> always wanted to build out this data with survey research about what they
> think would increase safety device use, improve safety feature activation,
> and decrease personnel access to non-safety.  The OSHA requirement to
> include frontline non-managerial employees in device evaluation clearly
> isn?t driving injuries down as much as we?d hoped.
>
> http://internationalsafetycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/
> Official-2014-NeedleSummary.pdf
>
> Since 52.3% of all sharps injuries continue to occur from non-safety
> devices, we still have a good bit of work to do to understand why whole
> institutions or departments aren?t implementing safety devices.  And for
> those that are using safety, we need to understand why 64% are not
> activating the safety feature (or haven?t had the opportunity to activate
> the safety feature).
>
> Qualitative survey data like what you are proposing would be instrumental
> in helping us identify underlying reasons why injuries are not declining
> nationally.
>
> Let me know how we can help.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Amber Hogan Mitchell, DrPH, MPH, CPH
> President | Executive Director
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> From: MCOH-EH <mcoh-eh-bounces at mylist.net> on behalf of Therese
> Bovee-McKelvey <TMBoveeMcKelvey at evergreenhealthcare.org>
> Reply-To: MCOH/EH <mcoh-eh at mylist.net>
> Date: Thursday, May 4, 2017 at 4:48 PM
> To: "mcoh-eh at mylist.net" <mcoh-eh at mylist.net>
> Subject: [MCOH-EH] BBP Safer Sharps
>
> Hello ,
>
> We are looking at doing a survey monkey to get input from front-line staff
> regarding BBP/safer sharps concerns / issues.  Has anyone done this before
> and if so would you be willing to share what questions you asked and how
> that worked out for you?  We are looking at comparing survey results to our
> BBP exposure data and possibly prioritizing where to best spend our
> resources and efforts.
>
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
>
> Therese
> Therese Bovee McKelvey, MN, RN  Sr. Employee Health Nurse - Employee Health
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