The Workplace Safety And Health Act
49
NEEDLES
IN MEDICAL WORKPLACES
Use of safety-engineered needles
45.1(1) When hollow-bore or intravenous needles are used in a medical
workplace,
the employer must ensure
(a) so far as is reasonably practicable, that workers use only safety-
engineered needles; and
(b) that safe work procedures and practices
relating to the use
of those safety-engineered needles are implemented in the
workplace.
If safety-engineered needles not practicable
45.1(2) If it is not reasonably practicable to use
safety-engineered needles
in a medical workplace, the employer must ensure that safe work
procedures and practices relating to
the use of hollow-bore or
intravenous needles are implemented in the workplace.
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