FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI/00792
- Request Date
- February 3, 2016
- Subject
- Formaldehyde and Formalin
- Description
1. How many reported incidents involving formaldehyde and/or Formalin have occurred in the last 3 years at your trust? Please provide numbers of staff and patients involved in such incidents
- How many reported illnesses or injury due to formaldehyde and/or formalin has your trust had?
- Has your trust ever been subject to legal proceedings due to exposure to formaldehyde and and/or formalin? Please supply numbers of incidents
- Does your trust have a policy or procedure in place to reduce exposure to formaldehyde and/or formalin in the treatment room setting whilst harvesting biopsy samples? If so please supply
- Does your trust have a policy to purchase the safest practicable solution to reduce harmful exposure to Formaldehyde and/or formalin? If so please supply details
- Response
1) I can confirm that we have had no incidents reported in the past 3 years (01/01/2013 to 31/12/2015) involving either Formaldehyde or Formalin involving either staff or patients.
2) As question 1
3) No
4) No, we have done awareness sessions about the hazards associated with formalin.
5) No