In June 2012, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) published the "NIOSH List of Antineoplastic and Other Hazardous Drugs in Healthcare Settings 2012. The document builds on a NIOSH alert from 2004 that warned health care employers and workers of the risks of working...
Although guidelines for protecting health care workers from the dangers of hazardous drugs have been in existence for more than 25 years, there is tremendous inconsistency in compliance by oncology professionals. One reason for the discrepancy is the voluntary, nonpunitive nature of these guidelines. ...
System Pharmacists (ASHP); NIOSH revision of the ASHP definition; determining whether a drug is hazardous; how to generate your own list of hazardous drugs; where to find information related to drug toxicity; examples of hazardous drugs; sample list of drugs that should be considered hazardous....
NIOSH alerts healthcare professionals to antineoplastic and other hazardous drugs in healthcare settingsFrom the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Healthdoi:http://drugtopics.modernmedicine.com/node/114886Drug Topics staffAdvanstar Communications Inc...
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) may recommend that healthcare workers, including pharmacists and pharmacist technicians, be transferred away from positions where they handle hazardou...
Gap Analysis Helps Organizations Integrate Three Key Documents—In September 2004, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) published an alert entitled "Preventing Occupational Exposures to Antineoplastic and Other Hazardous Drugs in Healthcare Settings." The alert contains five ...
The article reports on the recommendations of National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NOISH) to transfer the pregnant pharmacists and pharmacist technicians from the positions with hazardous drugs to other positions in the U.S. In this regard, NOISH calls for comments and information ...
The medical surveillance should be part of a broader program to reduce the hazards to employees who may come into contact with different hazardous drugs. It presents presents tips that health care emp...
The article offers information on a new document presented by National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) of the U.S. that addresses medical surveillance for workers of pharmaceutical industry who are exposed to hazardous drugs.EBSCO_AspSafety & Health...
NIOSH issues notice on hazardous drugs.(ON THE JOB BRIEFS)Currie, Donya