Presenting Safer Cancer Care’s film
Best Practices in Occupational Safety with Hazardous Medicinal Products
This Safer Cancer Care round-breaking film project explores current clinical practice, and how healthcare establishments can vastly improve safety for their employees working with, or around Hazardous Medicinal Products (HMPs); in pharmacy, to nursing and beyond.
Consisting of three hours of educational material, the film features Fred Massoomi, PharmD and Seth Eisenberg, Oncology Nurse Consultant discuss and present best practices for the safe handling of HMPs. Fred and Seth, globally renowned experts in occupational health and hazardous medicinal product (HMP) exposure research, bring their specialist insights and the US path to mandatory safety protections, to a European audience.
This film empowers healthcare organisations across the continent to adopt clinical best practices, mitigate workplace risks, and implement long-lasting institutional change to protect frontline staff.
We all rely on our healthcare systems to be there for when we, or our families and friends may need them; by responsibly improving the health and safety for those working with, or around HMPs in their establishments, hospitals, clinics and so on can protect the occupational health of their clinical workforce now, and into the future.
A concise visual Step-by-Step Guide to Hazardous Medicinal Product Safe Handling
This short guide covers the key steps for any healthcare establishment to implement to improve safety with HMPs - from receipt and preparation in pharmacy to nursing administration, spill management and waste disposal.
Learn how risk assessment, engineering controls, protective equipment and safe working practices can help protect everyone across the entire lifecycle of HMPs.
Watch the trailer here

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A concise visual Step-by-Step Guide to Hazardous Medicinal Product Safe Handling
Pharmacy and Nursing. One Shared Responsibility: The vital conversation
Safe Handling of HMPs: the Educational presentation
Matthias Hellberg-Naegele,
Advanced Practice Nurse, Kantonsspital, St. Gallen, Switzerland and Board Member, European Oncology Nursing Society
“When the opportunity arose to bring Seth, Fred, Paul and the Safer Cancer Care team to our hospital, everyone was immediately enthusiastic. This was a unique chance to rethink the process of safety in handling hazardous drugs and the collaboration between pharmacy and nursing.”


With huge thanks to Fred Massoomi,
Seth Eisenberg, Matthias Hellberg-Naegele
and Paul Sessink.
