{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-sharp-instruments-in-healthcare-regulations-2013/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-sharp-instruments-in-healthcare-regulations-2013/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/645",
  "legislation_title": "The Health and Safety (Sharp Instruments in Healthcare) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-sharp-instruments-in-healthcare-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Arrangements in the event of injury",
  "text": "(1) Where an employer is notified of any incident at work in which an employee has suffered an injury from a medical sharp, the employer must—\n(a) record the incident;\n(b) investigate the circumstances and cause of the incident; and\n(c) take any necessary action to prevent a recurrence.\n(2) Additionally, where an employer is notified of any incident at work in which an employee has suffered an injury caused by a medical sharp that exposed, or may have exposed, the employee to a biological agent, the employer must—\n(a) take immediate steps to ensure that the employee receives medical advice;\n(b) ensure that any treatment advised by a registered medical practitioner, including post-exposure prophylaxis, is made available to the employee; and\n(c) consider providing the employee with counselling.\n(3) In this regulation—\n(a) “biological agent” means a micro-organism, cell culture or human endoparasite, whether or not genetically modified, which may cause infection, allergy, toxicity or otherwise create a hazard to human health; and\n(b) “post-exposure prophylaxis” means a course of treatment of medicine administered to a person after exposure, or suspected exposure, to a biological agent in order to prevent infection or development of disease caused by that biological agent.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/645/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:00:27.656714+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}