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Developing a hazardous drug safe-handling program
Southern Regional Health System, Riverdale, GA
While information about the occupational risks of chemotherapy and other hazardous drugs has been available for more than 20 years, evidence for worker exposure is still being reported. The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) published the first national guidelines for safe handling of chemotherapy in 1986, and yet these recommendations are not universally used. This article will review the current recommendations for the safe handling of hazardous drugs and describe the components of a hazardous drug safe handling program.
| Commun Oncol 2005;2:403–405 | full text |  93 kb |