Sharp Material Injury and Associated Factors Among Healthcare Workers Working in Public Hospitals of Hadiya Zone, Central Ethiopia

Three in 10 healthcare workers face sharp material injury. Supervision, training, protocol, recapping needles, disposing of sharp materials, segregating sharp waste, and reporting any sharp material injury immediately were found to be significant variables. Therefore, conducting regular supervision from hospital authorized bodies, training healthcare workers, developing and implementing protocols about sharp material injury reports, avoiding recapping needles after injection, proper disposition of sharp materials in safety box after the procedure, adequate segregation of sharp waste from other wastes, and coherent reporting of any sharp material injury immediately might reduce the occurrence of sharp material injury among healthcare workers.