NIOSH workshop

Details

• Personal Author:
  Connor, Thomas H.
• Description:
  The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) hosted a workshop focusing on the newly released NIOSH Alert, Preventing Occupational Exposures to Antineoplastic and Other Hazardous Drugs in Health Care Settings (DHHS Publication Number 2004-165) on October 3 - 5, in San Antonio, Texas. The purpose of the Alert is to increase awareness among health care workers and their employers about the health risks posed by working with hazardous drugs and to provide them with measures to protect their health. The theme of the workshop was "converting theory to practice" and was attended by approximately 200 pharmacy, nursing and health and safety professionals. NIOSH personnel and other experts in the various topics discussed some of the major areas of the Alert and their implications. The Alert covers all aspects of hazardous drug handling from shipping and receiving through preparation and treatment of patients and cleaning and waste disposal. It also summarizes the evidence for exposure and for health effects in workers who handle hazardous drugs. The Alert lists approximately 130 therapeutic agents that NIOSH considers to pose a health hazard to health care workers. Approximately 90 of these are used in the treatment of cancer and include both cytotoxic and non-cytotoxic drugs, such as hormonal agents, monoclonal antibodies and others. NIOSH will be reviewing this list of hazardous drugs on a regular basis and will post the revised list at https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2004-165/. Two ISOPP members presented talks at the workshop. Dr. Paul Sessink from Exposure Control, the Netherlands discussed studies on environmental contamination and worker exposure. Dr. Thomas Connor, NIOSH presented an overview of the Alert and discussed personal protective equipment issues related to handling hazardous drugs. NIOSH is planning on presenting several mini-workshops on the Alert in the U.S. during the coming year. [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:
  2
• Volume:
  6
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20047272
• Citation:
  ISOPP Newslet 2004 Dec; 6(4):2
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2005
• NORA Priority Area:
  Research Tools and Approaches: Exposure Assessment Methods
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  International Society of Oncology Pharmacy Practitioners Newslstter
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:ee35570de9b76c9721c899b3aee9d55f228c9e86be663df2ee533cf58ca24c923975bda94891799ac56820ba2ec2b395a4e09ed626e8c963cdf2b4631c4946c2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/202407/cdc_202407_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 255.90 KB ]