WORLD AT WORK
Clean-room technology
World at work: Hospital pharmacy clean-rooms
1 University of Central England, Birmingham, UK
2 St James’s Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds, UK
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr C A Jackson
Health and Policy Studies, University of Central England, Birmingham B42 2SU, UK; craig.jackson@uce.ac.uk
An overview of potential hazards and preventive measures
Keywords: isolation; musculoskeletal; environmental; ergonomic; psychosocial
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Clean-room technology is a complicated and rapidly growing industry, and although many working processes rely on clean-rooms, this article is solely concerned with clean-room working in UK hospital pharmacies, and the associated regulations. In UK hospitals, drug preparations such as antibiotics and cytotoxics were traditionally prepared at the bedside until the working party on the addition of drugs to intravenous infusion fluids (the Breckenridge Report, 1974) made this type of preparation unfeasible. Since then, intravenous preparations have been prepared centrally under the control of pharmacy departments. The UK COSHH regulations issued in 1989 and the Consumer Protection Act (1987) also affected the way in which pharmaceuticals were prepared in hospitals, considering the health and welfare of the patients, healthcare workers, and pharmacy workers, as well as the products. Commonly prepared products in hospital pharmacy clean-rooms include cytotoxic drugs, total parenteral nutrition (TPN; a food replacement given to patients
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