subject: Exposures to Hazardous Drugs Is Ordeal to Mankind [print this page] Exposures to Hazardous Drugs Is Ordeal to Mankind
Mostly all medicines are made with Hazardous drugs. These drugs are the primary elements of all the useful medicines. These dangerous drugs are made with highly lethal agents that can cause deadly situation when they were exposed. There is various health hazards are obtained by these toxic agents. The people who work for the healthcare units and who works in all kinds of drug related activities may get effected easily because they deal more with this toxic agents regularly. These toxic agents contains very harmful chemicals like toxic or more toxic agents, reproductive toxins, carcinogens, sensitizers, irritants, corrosive and several other hazardous agents that can cause organ defects.
Many drugs are used to develop useful medicines. But it is not compulsory that all of them are dangerous to use. According to OSHA and ASHP, there are many tests that analyze the dangerous agents as risky or not risky. These organizations also provided numerous safety guidelines and educate the people how to deal with these toxic agents. According to their tests the substances that have the symptoms like reproductive toxicity, carcinogenicity, teratogenicity, developmental toxicity, genotoxicity and organ toxicity at lower amounts are considered as the Hazardous drugs.
Many different organizations took the responsibility in publishing safe handling guidelines, every health care unit should maintain the list of the Hazardous drugs according to the rule and related guidance. These drugs when they purchased as a raw materials they should check first whether these drugs are dangerous or not. The chances are more to get exposed to these drugs if the usage is more and production increased to produce useful medicines. The exposures can be very dangerous as it contaminates the surroundings very badly. The exposure of these drugs can cause temporary health problems and also lifelong health problems
If you strictly follow all the safety guidelines which are published by different health departments and proper usage of all the safety equipment at workplaces can help you to reduce the risks of dangerous exposures and in turn their dangerous effects.
