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The SafeHandS newsletter (In SafeHandS) is sent to members every 3 months.

Members are encouraged to contribute to the newsletter by:

  • Participating in the "Member's Profile". You can provide a brief profile about yourself and a brief example about your experience in improving health care worker safety in your workplace
  • Providing information about recent articles, resources and upcoming events related to health care worker safety
  • Submitting a question or concern you have about health care worker safety
  • Suggesting a theme for a future newsletter

To contribute to the newsletter, please send us an e-mail. Guidelines for Contributors [pdf 22kb].

You can elect to receive the newsletter by post. However, this will be a shorter version than the electronic newsletter.

In SafeHandS Newsletters (Theme in brackets)

2009:
Volume 3, Issue 6, September [pdf 373kb] (Infection Control Congress)
Volume 3, Issue 5, June [pdf 665kb] (Pandemic Influenza)
Volume 3, Issue 4, March [pdf 596kb] (Education and training)

2008:
Volume 3, Issue 3, December [pdf 143kb]
(E-learning)
Volume 3, Issue 2, September [pdf 445kb] (SafeHandS Phase II)
Volume 3, Issue 1, June [pdf 164kb] (HIV post exposure prophylaxis)
Volume 2, Issue 6, March [pdf 663kb] (Health workers with infectious diseases)

2007:
Volume 2, Issue 5, December [pdf 365kb] (HIV and the workplace)
Volume 2, Issue 4, September [pdf 392kb] (Papua New Guinea)
Volume 2, Issue 3, June [pdf 701kb] (Clinical practice improvement)
Volume 2, Issue 2, March [pdf 435kb] (Stigma and discrimination)

2006:
Volume 2, Issue 1, December [pdf 400kb] (Surveillance)
Volume 1, Issue 6, September [pdf 171kb] (Indonesia)
Volume 1, Issue 5, June [pdf 503kb] (Pacific Region)
Volume 1, Issue 4, March [pdf 174kb] (HIV/AIDS)


2005:
Volume 1, Issue 3, December [pdf 164kb] (Respiratory zoonoses)
Volume 1, Issue 2, October [pdf 208kb] (Occupational exposures)
Volume 1, Issue 1, June [pdf 348kb] (Health care worker safety)

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