West Palm Beach Bio-hazardous waste removal is an essential process in every health care facility. Without removing potentially hazardous waste material properly, you might expose your staff (medical personnel included), patients and even the whole community to a host of unsafe and dangerous materials.
Medical waste management has to be performed carefully and professionally and the waste needs to be treated, secured and finally disposed of according to best medical practices. This article explains bio-hazardous waste removal in short and optimistically understandable way to a layman.
1. You should only use red bags for bio-hazardous waste removal. No other plastic waste bag will do. The reason for this is that every waste type has its designated color of the bag it should be placed in (red for biohazards, green for organic, clear for recyclables and so on) in order for the person handling waste to know right away where to dispose of the certain waste type. So, in other words, if you have some contaminated and poetically infectious waste, put it in the red bag.
2. The items that can go in the red bag include, among the rest, the following: human body parts, organs, tissue, body fluids, contaminated lab items, blood and blood products and any other items that have been contaminated by blood or body fluids. Sharps waste are not to be dropped straight into the red bag as they can easily rip or tear the plastic material. They should first be placed in a sharps container.
3. Make sure that you do not overfill the red bag. Leave some room inside and secure it with a good knot. Once you have the red bag sufficiently secured (nothing leaks out of it), place it inside a biohazard container.
4. Fill in a bio-hazard waste accumulation log to aid the medical waste management West Palm Beach workers in identifying the contents of the bag. Do not expect them to check this for you.
5. What do you do with hospital waste that has not been contaminated? This waste should go in the clear plastic bags instead of the red ones. I’ve already mentioned that these bags are used for items that are meant for recycling.
6. Finally, sharps waste, like needles, scalpels and other medical instruments used in surgical procedures, should be placed in a sharps container. This container should be made of a durable material that does not leak anywhere, are resistant to piercing and have a lid that allows them to be closed securely.
Some Tips on Bio-Hazardous Waste Removal
• Wear protective equipment such as gloves and eye goggles when handling medical waste
• Make sure that sharps containers and other biohazard containers have tight-fitting lids
• To prevent leaking when taking the biohazard container from one place to another, carry it inside another bag
• Do not overfill bio-hazard waste bags and containers. Instead, remove them once they are full, or once every week, depending on what arrangements you make with your medical waste management West Palm Beach company.
