Terry R Grimmond

PeerJ Author

Summary

Terry is an Australian consultant microbiologist with 51 years’experience in teaching hospitals, government, industry and private consultancy, and his research interests are surveying and reducing sharps injuries among healthcare workers internationally, and the environmental impact of healthcare wastes.
He serves on sharps container standards in four countries and ISO, and in 2015 was National Infection-Prevention Training Coordinator for the W.H.O. Ebola Response Team in Sierra Leone.
Terry has published extensively and spoken at more than 200 assemblies in 22 countries and received multiple awards for his research and teaching. He is Lead Investigator on the annual USA EXPO-STOP Sharps Injury Survey and the Australian ACIPC National Sharps Injury Survey.
His personal website is: http://terrygrimmond.com

Environmental Impacts Microbiology

Work details

Director

Director, Grimmond and Associates, Microbiology Consultancy

November 2008

Consultancy in: Sharps Injury Databases Sharps Injury Prevention strategies Medical waste reduction Sharps Container design and efficacy National and International Standards relevant to the above.

Websites

Blog

February 22, 2019

The impact on life cycle carbon footprint of converting from disposable to reusable sharps containers in a large US hospital geographically distant from manufacturing and processing facilities

Brett McPherson, Mihray Sharip, Terry Grimmond

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6204 PubMed 30809428

May 23, 2018 - Version: 2

The impact on global warming potential of converting from disposable to reusable sharps containers in a large US hospital geographically distant from polymer and container manufacturer

Brett McPherson, Mihray Sharip, Terry Grimmond

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.26517v2