<p>This document 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.</p>
<p>It is applicable to single-use sharps containers that are supplied complete by the manufacturer and to those that are supplied as components intended to be assembled by the user.</p>
<p>It is not applicable to reusable sharps containers or to the outer containers used in the transportation of filled single-use sharps containers.</p>
Registration number (WIID)
71506
Scope
<p>This document 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.</p>
<p>It is applicable to single-use sharps containers that are supplied complete by the manufacturer and to those that are supplied as components intended to be assembled by the user.</p>
<p>It is not applicable to reusable sharps containers or to the outer containers used in the transportation of filled single-use sharps containers.</p>
