Safety-engineered medical devices

Safety-engineered medical devices

Practices may reduce the risk of sharps injuries through the use safety-engineered medical devices and other technologies that significantly reduce the risk of sharps injury, such as:

• self-retracting single-use lancets for blood glucose testing
• self-retracting cannula insertion devices
• round-tipped scalpel blades instead of pointed sharp-tipped blades
• vacuum blood collection tubes
• properly installed scalpel blade removal devices
• plastic ampoules in place of glass
• sharps containers meeting Australian Standards and appropriately mounted (eg on a wall or trolley).