IS 18200 : Part 1 : 2024 Sharps Injury Protection - Requirements and Test Methods - Part 1 Single-Use Sharps Containers (ISO 23907-1 : 2019, MOD)
NATIONAL FOREWORD
This Indian Standard (Part 1) which is modified adoption of ISO 23907-1 : 2019 'Sharps injury protection — Requirements and test methods - Part 1: Single-use sharps containers' issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on recommendation of the Hospital Bio Medical Waste Management and Infection Control Sectional Committee and approval of the Medical Equipment and Hospital Planning Division council.
This specification stipulates requirements for single-use sharp containers intended to hold potentially hazardous sharps medical waste with or without sharps protection features, for example, scalpel blades, trocars, hypodermic needles and syringes, or any other contaminated sharp object that may cause puncture and cuts, including the categories mentioned in Schedule I appended to Bio-Medical Waste rules 2016.
While formulating this Indian Standard, the following critical parameters (including those listed in the Bio-Medical Waste Management Rules, 2016) have been taken care of.
a) Material clause;
b) Requirements of Container stability, strength of handle(s), resistance to penetration, resistance to damage and leakage after dropping and resistance to spillage by toppling to ensure safe handling of hazardous bio-medical waste;
c) Provision for labeling and marking for the sharps containers has been made; and
d) Treatment and disposal options for sharps containers.
The text of ISO Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard without deviations. Certain conventions and terminologies are, however, not identical to those used in Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following:
a) Wherever the words 'International Standard' appear referring to this standard, they should be read as 'Indian Standard'; and
b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker while in Indian Standards, the current practice is to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.