Infectious waste involves both waste that can physically injure a person and waste that has pathogenic characteristics. These are also called medical waste, as they are most commonly generated by medical or health care facilities and have a potential to spread dangerous diseases, cause personal injury or pollute the environment in some way.
To be safe from infectious waste, the same has to be handled by bio-medical waste removal companies. It is very important that medical wastes are handled, packaged, labeled, transported and finally disposed of according to the federal and state medical waste management requirements and regulations.
Here is, in short, how bio-medical waste removal is done.
First of all, you will require certain items and equipment in order to dispose of infectious waste. Hopefully, you already have all the necessary licenses requested in your state for bio-medical waste removal and have received If you can, you can proceed by obtaining the following items:
• Sharps containers
• Red bio-medical waste removal plastic bags
• Anti-septic soap
• Hand and surface sanitizers
Start by creating a medical waste management Boyton Beach plan. This plan should be based on what kind of waste your facility or company produce and how much it produces. Make an inventory of all infectious and possibly infectious material in the facility. This especially includes items that have been contaminated by blood or other body fluids and discarded sharps.
Educate and train your personnel on handling and recognizing infectious and other types of medical wastes for the purposes of easier and quicker bio-medical waste removal. Make sure that they use PPE (personal protective equipment) every time they handle medical wastes. This is for their own safety, so make sure that you explain that to them. Also, be sure that they also know the correct hand washing and sanitizing techniques. You would be surprised at how few people, even in medical industry, actually knows how to wash their hands properly.
Place sharps containers and red bags into every room or area where infectious wastes are present or will be present. Sharps containers should be made of durable material and have to be leak-proof and resistant to piercing. Red bags need to include a “biohazard” sign at the front.
If you don’t have your own medical waste transport vehicles, contact a licensed medical waste management Boyton Beach company in your area to come and pick up the bio-medical waste you gathered. IN the meantime, keep all such waste in a secure and well ventilated storage area.
Make sure that the facility you hire for bio-medical waste removal uses more than one state-approved medical waste management method. These methods include: incineration, autoclaving, chemical disinfection, microwaving, thermal inactivation and other.
Finally, when you are done disposing of infectious waste, sanitize any horizontal surfaces that came in contact with the infectiu0s waste, and clean your hands thoroughly with a hospital-grade liquid sanitizing product.
