ISIPS - International Sharps Injury Prevention Society

International Sharps Injury Prevention Society, reduces the number of accidental sharps injuries that occur globally through the promotion of safety-engineered products. We are an international group comprised of medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers, health organizations, healthcare professionals, medical waste disposal experts, hospitals, insurance industry, managed care organizations, alternate site providers, correction officials, law enforcement personnel and others that have joined forces to provide education, information, and product knowledge that will help reduce the number of sharps injuries that occur each year. ISIPS promotes safety services and products that can reduce or eliminate needlestick and other sharps injuries. In addition, ISIPS takes the most current information available and disseminates it to healthcare workers, infection control managers, and other interested parties. The ISIPS newsletters are issued weekly with information concerning sharps injury news, emerging sharps prevention products and technologies, and the regulatory and legislative environment surrounding sharps injuries. Objectives: - Promote sharps injury prevention using a variety of methods including: ISIPS web site, ISIPS Newsletter, Today's Health News, press releases, articles in medical journals, etc. - Communicate to the media, web sites and other outlets about the importance of sharps injury prevention and the safety benefits of Society members' products and services. - Recruit new members and other supporting organizations that strengthen the Society. - Highlight innovations in medical technologies that reduces needlestick and other sharps injuries. - Focus on the dissemination of information concerning sharps injury news, regulatory and legislative environments that impact health care workers, hepatitis, HIV, and other infection control issues. Join ISIPS as corporate member and/or sign up for a free newsletter at www.isips.org.

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