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| OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration), Part 5 |
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To date, in previous issues of this newsletter, we have covered the following aspects of OSHA:
Background and Priorities
Inspection Process
Results and Appeals
General Information and Permissible Exposure Limits
This week, we will present sources of information where other detailed topics are covered.
OSHA Free Educational Materials
www.osha.gov/publications
www.osha.gov/ebooks
Primary Websites
www.osha.gov
www.osha.gov/laws-regs
Specific Website for Hazardous Drugs (HDs) and Its TOC
www.osha.gov/SLTC/hazardousdrugs/controlling_occex_hazardousdrugs.html
Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- Management of Hazardous Drugs in the Workplace
- Purpose of Review
- CATEGORIZATION OF DRUGS AS HAZARDOUS
- Characteristics
- Hazard Definition Based on Pharmacology/Toxicology
- BACKGROUND: HAZARDOUS DRUGS AS OCCUPATIONAL RISKS
- Mechanism of Action
- Animal Data
- Human Data at Therapeutic Levels
- Occupational Exposure: Environmental Measures
- Occupational Exposure: Biological Evidence of Absorption
- Occupational Exposure: Human Effects
- WORK AREAS
- Pharmacy or Other Compounding or Dispensing Areas
- Administration of Drugs to Patients
- Disposal of Drugs and Contaminated Materials
- Surveys of Current Work Practices
- Special Locations
- PREVENTION OF EMPLOYEE EXPOSURE
- Hazardous Drug Safety and Health Plan
- Drug Compounding Precautions
- Work Area
- Primary Engineering Controls (PEC) and Ventilated Cabinets
- Biological Safety Cabinets (BSCs)
- Types of BSCs
- Compounding Aseptic Containment Isolators (CACI)
- Decontamination, Deactivation, and Cleaning
- Service and Certification
- Personal Protective Equipment
- PPE Disposal and Decontamination
- Containment Supplemental Engineering Controls
- Work Equipment
- Preparation Pads
- Waste/Sharps Containers
- Use Luer-Lock Fittings
- Work Practices
- Drug Administration
- Caring for Patients Receiving HDs
- Spills
- Storage and Transport
- Training
- MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE
- Pre-placement Medical Examinations
- Periodic Medical Examinations
- Post-exposure Examinations
- Exit Examinations
- Exposure-Health Outcome Linkage
- Reproductive Issues
- HAZARD COMMUNICATION
- TRAINING AND INFORMATION DISSEMINATION
- RECORDKEEPING
- REFERENCES
- GLOSSARY
- RESOURCES
Editor's Note: In a later Newsletter, we will summarize some of the numerous publications related to Permissible Exposure Limits and how they could be used in establishing whether or not a drug may be a hazardous drug in the workplace.
Loyd V. Allen, Jr., PhD, RPh
Editor-in-Chief
IJPC
Remington: The Science and Practice of Pharmacy Twenty-second edition
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Vending Machines for Prescription Drugs
Patients would get expanded access to prescription drugs under a bill in the Florida Legislature that allows pharmacies to operate medication-dispensing kiosks. The automated pharmacy systems would be vending machines for prescription drugs. The machines could be placed in areas where access to medications is limited, and the kiosks could operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, according to HB 59 sponsor, Rep. Matt Willhite, a Palm Beach Democrat. Pharmacists should welcome the automation and expanded access, said Kevin Sneed, dean of the Taneja College of Pharmacy at the University of South Florida. Sneed warned the bill should contain a requirement that patients who use the kiosks first speak with a pharmacist.
https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/post/bill-would-allow-vending-machines-prescription-drugs
Major Drug Chains Sue Doctors
Major drug chains have sued doctors across northeast Ohio, claiming that physicians are the real culprits in the nation's deadly drug epidemic. CVS, Walgreen Co., Walmart, Rite Aid, and other major pharmacy chains said opioid prescribers bear responsibility for the prescription narcotic crisis, but, unlike the drugstores, have not been sued by Cuyahoga and Summit counties. In legal papers filed Monday, they contended that doctors and other prescribers should have to pay some of the penalty if the drugstore chains are found liable at trial. One "fly in the ointment" is that federal regulations assign pharmacists a "corresponding responsibility" to ensure that prescriptions are legitimate and help prevent diversion of painkillers to illicit users and dealers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/major-drugstore-chains-sue-doctors-in-sprawling-federal-opioid-case/2020/01/07/3ac9cd70-317d-11ea-9313-6cba89b1b9fb_story.html
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Did You Know ...
...that Walt Disney said the following?
"Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows."
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The above quote has also been stated using a comparison of "hills and valleys," but the meaning is similar. We will have good times and bad times; we enjoy the former but dread the latter. However, often it is in the "shadows" or "valleys" that we are challenged and our true character is revealed. Have you ever considered that without light there would be no shadows and without mountains there would be no valleys? We are tested almost every day.
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