In 2011 PSI produced the film "Sharp Sense - Promoting the Safety of Health Care Workers" designed to lower the risk of exposure for health care workers and the risk of consequences of exposure to pathogens in blood and other body fluids of patients caused by needlestick/sharps injuries.
The film has been made available in English, French and Portuguese.
The booklet (EN - Sharp sense / FR - Le bon sens des aiguilles / PT - Cuidado com as seringas) can be consulted here
The short (...)

During summer 2011 DG EMPL produced a video on the elaboration of the Framework Agreement on prevention from sharp injuries in the hospital and healthcare sector concluded by HOSPEEM and EPSU on 17 July 2009.
Based on the procedures stipulated in Art. 154 and 155 2 of the TFEU this autonomous agreement of the European sectoral social partners in the hospital sector on 10 May 2010 became Directive 2010/32/EU.
The video i.a. contains interviews with Carola Fischbach-Pyttel, General (...)

(Brussels, 6 July 2011) EPSU and HOSPEEM contributed to the 2nd European Biosafety Summit in Dublin on Wednesday 1 June 2011, co-hosted by the European Biosafety Network (EBN) and the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (IMCO).
The conference highlighted the impact of sharps injuries and reported on progress within the Member States and across Europe towards implementation of Directive 2010/32/EU on the prevention of sharps injuries in the hospital and healthcare sector currently (...)

4 February 2010
(document being translated)

(16 November 2009) European Commission Proposal for a COUNCIL DIRECTIVE implementing the Framework Agreement on prevention from sharp injuries in the hospital and healthcare sector concluded by HOSPEEM and EPSU (COM(2009) 577 final)
The aim of the proposal is to give legal effect to the Framework Agreement on prevention from sharp injuries in the hospital and healthcare sector, signed on 17 July 2009 by HOSPEEM (European Hospital and Healthcare Employers’ Association) and EPSU (European (...)

(4 August 2009) The above framework agreement was signed by Karen Jennings, EPSU Chair of the Health and Social Services Committee, and Godfrey Pereira, General Secretary of HOSPEEM, the European Hospital and Healthcare Employers’ Association on 17 July in the presence of Employment and Social Affairs Commissioner Vladimir Spidla and Anne-Marie Perret, EPSU President. Both the decision making bodies of EPSU and HOSPEEM have endorsed the agreement and its signature concluded 6 months of (...)

Further to the meeting of the Executive Committee on 8 June, please find attached the final proposal for a framework agreement between EPSU and HOSPEEM on prevention from medical sharp injuries in the hospital and healthcare sector (version revised visible and version clean).
The agreement has been screened by the European Commission in order to enable it to be transposed into a European directive and thus legally binding in all the member states.
We hereby submit it to you for adoption (...)

Appel de la Fédération Syndicale Européenne des services publics
Premier accord conclu à l’échellon Européen par les syndicats et employeurs du secteur hospitalier destiné à éviter plus d’un million de blessures par an
(Bruxelles, 8 Juin 2009). L’objectif de cet accord européen est de prévenir l’incidence de plus d’un million de blessures par objets tranchants, pour les travailleurs de la santé, sera annoncé demain par les partenaires sociaux européens du secteur hospitalier :
La Fédération Syndicale (...)

Calling Notice – European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU)
First EU wide text agreed by Hospital trade unions and employers set to prevent over one million injuries per year.
(8 June 2009, Brussels). A European agreement, which is set to prevent over 1 million medical sharp injuries per year, for healthcare workers, will be announced tomorrow by the European Hospital Partners. The European Hospital Social Partners are:
The European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU)
The (...)