2014 Updates and changes to the NIOSH hazardous drug list

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• Personal Author:
  Connor, Thomas H.
• Description:
  Since 2010, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH-U.S.) has updated its list of hazardous drugs every two years. The most recent update to the list was published in late 2014. The 2014 update initially reviewed approximately 250 potentially hazardous drugs. Following the review process, 27 new drugs were added to the list (see table in full article) (Tables 1-3 www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2014-138/). Of these, five already had safe handling recommendations from the manufacturer which are automatically listed by NIOSH as hazardous drugs. The new additions met one or more of the NIOSH criteria for a hazardous drug. Until recently, the handling information in the drug package insert has included references to ASHP (2006) Oncology Nursing Society (2011); OSHA (1999); and NIOSH (2004), but recently they only include a link to the OSHA website that links to the NIOSH website on hazardous drugs (www.osha.gov/SLTC/hazardousdrugs/index.html). In addition to the new drugs listed for 2014, 11 drugs were removed from the original 2004 list based on their evaluation according to the NIOSH criteria and one other drug, tetracycline, was removed from the list based on stakeholder feedback and revaluation (Tables 4a and 4b, www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2014-138/). [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Biopharmaceutics Drug Therapy Health Personnel Occupational Health Pharmacies Safety
• Keywords:
  Drug-therapy Drugs Health-care-personnel Medical-personnel Medical-treatment Medicinal-chemicals Nurses Pharmaceuticals Pharmacists Pharmacy-workers Physicians

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• Publisher:
  International Society of Oncology Pharmacy Practitioners
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Newsletter
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DART - Division of Applied Research and Technology
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-2
• Volume:
  17
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20047120
• Citation:
  ISOPP Newslet 2015 Sep; 17(3):1-2
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• NORA Priority Area:
  Healthcare and Social Assistance
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  International Society of Oncology Pharmacy Practitioners Newslstter
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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• Download URL:
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