NIOSH updates List of Hazardous Drugs in Healthcare Settings

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has updated its List of Hazardous Drugs in Healthcare Settings, a resource for employers and employees in identifying drugs that are hazardous to the health and safety of those who handle them.

Among the revisions, the list:

• Adds 25 drugs, 12 with manufacturer's special handling information;
• Removes seven drugs;
• Notes drugs with approval under a biologics license application (BLA); and
• Updates the American Hospital Formulary Services (AHFS) classification and drug nomenclature of various drugs.

Drugs reviewed for the update were those with new approvals or new safety-related warnings from the Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, from January 2014 through December 2015.

The 2024 list supersedes the 2016 version.