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Posted By Ian Hurley
how much consideration should be given to making hepatitis b inoculations available to first aiders ,can anyone shed some light on this?
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Posted By fats van den raad
Ian
Unless there is a real risk that employees can come into contact with infected sharps etc. (for example, house clearance workers that often come across discarded needles)I would not go down that route.
There is no reason for a first aider to come into direct contact with any blood, if they follow their procedures, i.e. wearing gloves, etc.
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Posted By Laurie
I took this up with HSE, and with my local environmental health, and my health education board.
General consensus was that this is uneccessary unless the first aider is going to be working with those at a high risk of passing infection on on e.g. violent drug abusers, prisoners, children with behavioural problems (who might bite).
Laurie
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