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Plantation Bio-medical waste, also called medical waste and infectious waste is sold waste that comes as a result of testing, disappointing, treating or researching in hospitals, clinics, doctor’s and dentist’s offices, labs and other health care facilities. Such waste includes things like human and animal wastes, sharps, live vaccines, blood samples and cultures. Of course, a facility that generates this type of waste must have a well-detailed bio-medical waste management plan set up.
Who are the Sources of Bio-Medical Waste?
Bio-medical waste, as you probably already deduced, usually comes from hospitals and other medial buildings. These produce tons of medical waste every day that needs to be packaged, treated, transported and disposed of in a manner according to the federal and state laws.
Bio-medical waste can often be dangerous to human health and the environment. Because of this, medical care institutions are all required to follow strict bio-medical waste management procedures and rules. These are usually imposed by the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), OSHA (Occupational Health and Safety Administration), but also DOH (Department of Health), FDA (Food and Drugs Administration) and NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission). These five government agencies work to monitor different aspects of bio-medical waste management in the United States.
Categories of Bio-Medical Waste
Proper categorization of these wastes is the first and often most important step in medical waste management. Although there are different categorizations that you can find (which really only confuses people who are looking for information about medical waste), you would probably do best if you follow the following classification of bio-medical wastes:
- Human anatomical wastes (body parts, tissue and organs)
- Blood and blood samples
- Human body fluids (urine, vomit, feces, semen, saliva, sweat and basically any other disgusting liquid or semi-liquid that comes out of our body and makes us puke, thus causing an endless, South Park-eds cycle of “I vomit, you vomit”.
- Animal wastes (this includes body parts, organs, body fluids, blood, organs and tissue that are not human, but obviously animal). Alien waste is still not considered bio-medical but the writer of this article, in all his wisdom thinks it should be.
- Sharps (basically this includes needles and other sharp instruments used to lacerate or pierce the human skin that have been exposed to human blood or tissue)
- Microbiology waste (these are lab samples and culture stocks of pathogens used in research, live vaccines and other things that, due to their concentration, have the ability to cause some nasty things to happen to our health and environment.
So How do You Contain Bio-Medical Wastes?
Knowing what are bio-medical wastes and categorizing them is only the first step in bio-medical waste management Plantation, but the battle doesn’t end here. These wastes also have to be contained in a way that they don’t pose a hazard to humans, animals or the environment. This is done by separating bio-medical wastes from regular, non-infectious wastes and placing them in proper medical waste bags and containers.
Of particular concern , when it comes to bio-medical wastes and their disposal are sharps. What do you think would happen if you put a bunch of used needles, scalpels and scissors in a waste bag? They wold tear up that bag like a 13-year old kid tears down a big of chips. Except that, you would have a whole lot of life-threatening waste lying around and not just greasy chips. Well, if you don’t want this to happen, and I assure you you don’t, then what you will need in order to store sharps waste are sharps containers for Plantation Bio-Medical Waste.
