{"id":2545,"date":"2012-07-27T13:57:38","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T13:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.efnweb.be\/?p=2545"},"modified":"2025-02-27T17:27:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T15:27:32","slug":"efn-underlines-the-importance-of-implementing-directive-201036ec-on-international-hepatitis-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=2545","title":{"rendered":"EFN UNDERLINES THE IMPORTANCE OF IMPLEMENTING DIRECTIVE 2010\/32\/EC ON INTERNATIONAL HEPATITIS DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<span style=\"text-align: justify;\">A legislative proposal to protect Europe\u2019s healthcare professionals and workers from potentially dangerous infections due to injuries with needles and other sharp medical instrument came into force in June 2010 after years of intense negotiation by the EFN in the European Parliament.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although the deadline for full implementation comes to an end in 2013, workplaces, management and legislation are not adequately prepared to this new EU legislation. There are still insufficient measures to protect against needle stick injuries at workplaces, most of which could be easily avoided.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today, in Sweden (Uppsala), a demonstration aims at creating awareness of the large cases of injured health professionals that are still unrecorded. It is estimated that there are tens of thousands of employees without adequate protection in the service and where the damage has never been reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the Directive came into force, a European Biosafety Network was created with a commitment to improve the safety of patients and healthcare and non-healthcare professionals and workers. In order to make the best use of the resources available in prevention of sharp injuries, in addition to invest in safety equipment, it is necessary to effectively engage the health workforce through new types of training on how to avoid risk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ahead of the deadline for implementation, the EFN calls on the EU to support Member States pro-actively. \u00a0Social Cohesion Funds are eligible for financial support for an effective implementation of the Sharp Injuries Directive.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><em>Further information:<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/LexUriServ\/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:134:0066:0072:EN:PDF\">Directive 2010\/32\/EC<\/a>;<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/europeanbiosafetynetwork.eu\/\">European Biosafety Network<\/a>;\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0A legislative proposal to protect Europe\u2019s healthcare professionals and workers&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20043,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=20043","url_meta":{"origin":2545,"position":0},"title":"European Week for Safety and Health at Work 2026","author":"efn efn","date":"October 19, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Today marks the start of the European Week for Safety and Health at Work 2026. 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