Bio-Hazardous and Medical Waste
It is very important to learn how to properly dispose of medical and biohazardous waste. Bio-hazardous waste removal, if done correctly, can do a lot to protect the public from dangerous infections and the environment from pollution.
There, of course, exist different sate and county medical waste management Boyton Beach laws. These regulate packaging and disposal of medical waste produced by health care facilities. The disposal itself will depend naturally on whether the waste is medical or biohazardous.
Medical waste includes waste produced or generated in clinics and labs that has not been exposed or contaminated with blood, but that may appear hazardous to others
Bio-hazardous waste, on the other hand, include waste that have been contaminated with infectious or potentially infectious agents and that have are thought to be a threat to the public health or the environment.
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The following categories should be disposed of using a bio-hazardous waste removal method:
1. Human or animal blood or blood elements
2. Sharps
3. Human amputated body parts, organs or tissue (but not skin)
4. Waste from live or attenuated vaccines, bacteria or viruses
5. Dry bio-hazardous waste
6. Paper towels, bandages, gauze, surgical gloves and other similar item contaminated with bio-hazardous materials and substances.
7. Liquid bio-hazardous waste
8. Animal body parts, carcasses, tissue or organs, if they contain pathogens that are transmittable to humans.
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It is necessary to remember that, concerning bio-hazardous waste removal, medical waste is not the same as bio-hazardous waste and should not be treated or disposed of in the same manner. Here are the items are considered as medical waste:
1. Non-contaminated syringes absent needles
2. Autoclaved (steam sterilized dry bio-hazardous waste
3. Empty specimen containers
4. Paper towels, surgical gloves, wipes, bandages and other such items if they are not contaminated by blood
5. Non-contaminated laboratory equipment, such as Petri dishes, lab vials and flasks
6. Items containing dry blood or body fluids
7. Animal carcasses, body parts, organs or tissue if they do not contain pathogens that are also dangerous to human beings
8. Any other material, equipment or instrument used or produced in the health care facility that has not been in contact with liquid blood or blood products and is not bio-hazardous, or that it does not appear hazardous.
All waste produced as the result of treatment, diagnosis, inoculation of patients at hospitals or clinics, or by medical laboratories during research should be disposed of by a licensed medical waste management Boyton Beach companies.
