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Best Practices for Preventing and Reporting Sharps Injuries

Ensuring safety in the workplace is paramount, especially when dealing with sharps. Follow these best practices: wash sticks and cuts with soap and water, flush splashes with water, and irrigate eyes with water, saline, or sterile irrigants. Always report any incidents to your supervisor and seek immediate medical treatment. Remember, reporting is a key aspect of prevention. Add your own photos of staff modeling reporting procedures and include your facility logo. For further information, please contact [insert name] at ext. 9999.

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Best Practices for Preventing and Reporting Sharps Injuries

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  1. Prevention Best Practices: • Washsticks and cuts with soap and water. • Flushsplashes with water. • Irrigateeyes with water, saline, or sterile irrigates. • Report incident to your supervisor. • Seekmedical treatment immediately. REPORTING = PREVENTION Insert your own pictures of staff members modeling the reporting of a sharps injury (delete this text box) Insert facility logo here For more information contact [insert name]: ext. 9999

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