ISO/AWI 23907-3

Sharps injury protection — Requirements and test methods — Part 3: Containers for secure sharps medical waste

Scope

This document specifies requirements, recommendations and test methods for the design of sharps containers intended to hold only secured sharps medical waste possessing a passive/automatic sharps injury protection mechanism remaining active until recycling. Other medical wastes and especially liquid, have to be disposed in other appropriate containers.

It provides instruction for the labelling and the instruction for use of the container so as guidance for evaluating the secure medical waste it can hold safely.

This document is applicable to containers for secure sharps medical waste 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 single use sharps containers (refer to ISO 23907-1) and reusable sharps container (refer to ISO 23907-2) that can hold potentially hazardous sharps medical waste without functional sharps injury protection mechanisms.