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Ideas That Work
Safety Sheriffs

Rustling Up OR Safety
When you get creative, following the rules can be fun.
Looking for a way to improve your sharps and bloodborne pathogen safety? Get creative. We posted cartoon drawings of a doctor and a nurse, both with oversized hands and faces, above the scrub sinks. We mark the hands with red dots where doctors or nurses suffer sharps injuries, and mark the faces with red dots where they suffer splash exposures. The drawings of "Dr. Hepatitis" and "Nurse-Tech HIV" are comical, but you can look at them and see the hazards that had been reported.

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