Landscape Workers at Risk Too

I can't imagine what goes through a health workers mind having to deal with the thought of getting a needlestick injury - the mental stress must be enormous. I've seen first hand the stress one of my fellow workers went through after recieving a needlestick injury while we were trimming hedges. It is a common occurence for the local drug addicts to throw their used syringes into the hedges and gardens on the boundry fence at the racecourse. This can be avoided by if the drug addicts were supplied with a syringe I saw recently the needle retracts and can't be used again. To me it looks extremely safe. I put it this way - a syringe can be used by someone with a contagious disease, throw the needle down, a baby picks it up and puts it in it's mouth but it's completely safe . I don't know if this syringe is in production but if it is, if I was a healthcare worker, I would be demanding my employer use the safest product available . This is an Australian invention, the company's name is Unilife Corporation.