---
title: 'A Cut Above the Rest: Dangerous Designs in Our Sterile Processing World'
type: 'episode'
url: 'https://doc.social/episodes/a-cut-above-the-rest-dangerous-designs-in-our-sterile-processing-world'
show: 'Beyond Clean'
show_url: 'https://doc.social/podcasts/beyond-clean'
published: '2023-11-30'
audio: 'https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/beyondclean/Article_088_-_A_Cut_Above_the_Rest.mp3'
---

# A Cut Above the Rest: Dangerous Designs in Our Sterile Processing World

written by Hank Balch

## Summary

In this CE-approved episode of Articles On-The-Go, Hank Balch critiques the safety hazards and design flaws with some of our SPD’s most used equipment: "Whether it is the tape dispenser, washer manifold, or some other sharp/hot/slippery corner of our world, until we talk about it, we can’t expect to find solutions. Very few in the research and development sector of the Sterile Processing industry have ever set foot in a Sterile Processing department. In some sense, that’s understandable. They are engineers, not..."

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