---
title: 'Sterile Processing Safety Shouldn''t Be a Near Miss: Why Incident Reporting of Sharps Matters to Everyone'
type: 'episode'
url: 'https://doc.social/episodes/sterile-processing-safety-shouldnt-be-a-near-miss-why-incident-reporting-of-sharps-matters-to-everyone'
show: 'Beyond Clean'
show_url: 'https://doc.social/podcasts/beyond-clean'
published: '2021-10-07'
audio: 'https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/beyondclean/Article_061_-_SPD_Safety_Shouldnt_Be_a_Near_Miss.mp3'
---

# Sterile Processing Safety Shouldn't Be a Near Miss: Why Incident Reporting of Sharps Matters to Everyone

written by Hank Balch

## Summary

In this episode of Articles On-The-Go, Hank Balch examines the often overlooked and undocumented occurrence of used sharps being sent to SPD--"If a hospital would document a near miss or injury to a doctor due to a disposable sharp that was not properly disposed of, the same should be true for a decontaminator... All members of the perioperative continuum of care, regardless of their title, deserve the same level of protection from and follow-up to the dangers of contaminated sharps."

#sterileprocessing #wefightdirty #safetyfirst #incidentreporting