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Jose Medical Center Ambulatory Surgery Unit in San Jose, Calif. Repurpose those orange mats you use to designate a neutral zone for the hands-free transfer of sharps to create a sterile processing safe zone. Once the case is over, place knife handles, hooks, drill bits and all other sharps atop the orange mat so that your SPD team knows right away there are sharps in the tray. 3. More than half of incidents are not even reported. It has been estimated about half of sharps injuries go unreported. Do your staff members feel comfortable reporting a stick without fear of retaliation? And do they take sticks seriously? "We don't treat it with caution and care. If I get poked, I get poked. We don't want to write an incident report today. High reliability is a fierce underlying problem," says Ms. Crnkovich. "No one should be afraid to report they got stuck." 4. Even when you're careful, you can get stuck. Ms. Crnkovich last got stuck almost 5 years ago when she reached down into a mesh instrument pan to grab an instrument 5 0 • O U T PA T I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E • J A N U A R Y 2 0 2 0 viscotcs@viscot.com • www.viscot.com • 800.221.0658 Neutral Zone ® Contact us for turnkey implementation kit Autoclavable can be re-used for hundreds of procedures Meets all hands free passing recommendations from OSHA, AORN & CDC

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