BS EN ISO 23907:2012

Sharps injury protection. Requirements and test methods. Sharps containers. | Status: Superseded, Withdrawn

1 Scope This International Standard specifies requirements for single-use sharps containers intended to hold potentially hazardous sharps medical waste with or without sharps protection features, e.g. scalpel blades, trocars, hypodermic needles and syringes. It is applicable to sharps containers that are supplied complete by the manufacturer and to those that are supplied as components intended to be assembled by the user. It is not applicable to reusable sharps containers or the outer containers used in the transportation of filled single-use sharps containers.