CSA Group Sharps injury protection - Requirements and test methods - Sharps containers (Adopted ISO 23907:2012, first edition, 2012-09-01, with Canadian deviations)

CSA Preface This is the fourth edition of CAN/CSA-Z316.6, Sharps injury protection - Requirements and test methods - Sharps containers, which is an adoption, with Canadian deviations, of the identically titled ISO (International Organization for Standardization) Standard 23907 (first edition, 2012- 09-01). This fourth edition of CAN/CSA-Z316.6 is its first as an adoption of an International Standard. It supersedes the previous edition, published in 2007 under the title Evaluation of single-use and reusable medical sharps containers for biohazardous and cytotoxic waste. For brevity, this Standard will be referred to as "CAN/CSA-Z316.6" throughout. This Standard was reviewed for Canadian adoption by the CSA Subcommittee on Sharps Containers, under the jurisdiction of the CSA Technical Committee on Medical Laboratory Quality Systems and the CSA Strategic Steering Committee on Health Care Technology & Systems, and has been formally approved by the Technical Committee. This Standard has been approved as a National Standard of Canada by the Standards Council of Canada. CSA Scope [Replace the first paragraph with the following] This Standard specifies requirements for single-use and reusable 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. [Replace the third paragraph with the following] For supplementary requirements applicable to reusable sharps containers, see Annex BA. This Standard is not applicable to outer containers used in the transportation of filled single-use sharps containers. ISO Scope This International Standard 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. It is applicable to sharps containers 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 reusable sharps containers or the outer containers used in the transportation of filled single-use sharps containers.