Posted By John Belcher I work in the Air Cargo industry and carried with the cargo is a large amount of documentation. This documentation is processed and inevitably contains a large amount of staples. The staff involved suffer many cuts due to these. We have tried various controls e.g. informing outstations to use less staples, issuing gloves, protective tape to staff all to no avail and accepted the problem Recently a staff member had 3 weeks off, and operation and a stay in hospital due to an infection allegedly caused by a staple. (No it's not a windup) Has anyone experienced the same problem or got any further ideas on potential control measures

Posted By TBC Difficult one with so many bugs out there. Maybe you should consider asking the employees to get a tetanus jab from their own GP as a minimum precaution - I think it's still free. Then think of a long term solution.

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