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Bio-Hazardous Medical Waste Management Coral Springs – How to Deal With Human Medical Waste?

Every hospital or other healthcare institution needs to have an established bio-hazardous medical waste management Coral Springs program in place. Without it, they would be seriously risking putting their personnel, patients and the general public in danger of contracting an infectious disease from its waste, or polluting the environment.

  • What kind of waste is considered biohazardous?

Bio-hazardous waste include any waste that is contaminated with a pathogen that can be dangerous to human health. These pathogens may include bacteria, viruses, spores, fungi and other microorganisms.

There are six types of biohazardous waste:

  • Human blood and blood products
  • Human pathogen waste
  • Human bodily fluids
  • Animal waste
  • Microbiological waste
  • Sharps waste

In this short article, you will learn how to deal with human waste. This includes human blood and blood products, human bodily fluids (such as urine, feces, vomit, semen, sweat, saliva or vaginal secretion), next, amputated body parts, organs and tissue. As you can see, there is clearly a lot of human waste that needs to be taken into account when it comes to bio-hazardous medical waste management Coral Springs.

Here is how you should properly dispose of human waste:

  1. Obtain an EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) approved medical waste container in which you will dispose of infected human waste. Do not forget to wear PPE (personal protection equipment) when handling this waste. Especially make sure that you have rubber gloves on your hands to avoid touching any human waste with bare skin.
  2. Put any bio-hazardous waste into the EPA-approved container. These containers are usually red or yellow, made of a hard plastic material and labeled with a clear “biohazard” sign. Since the container has a hole through which waste can be entered, it is easy to put something in, but not to get something out of it.
  3. Don’t try to forcibly put something in if it doesn’t fit. Anything that is too big for the bio-hazard waste disposal box can go into a red plastic bag. This way you can, for example, dispose of bed sheets or linen covered in blood. Once you’ve filled the red bag (it should never be fully packed), you should close it with the tie that the bio-hazardous medical waste management company has send you along with the bags. If you don’t have these ties or if you’ve misplaced them somehow, you can close the red bag in any other way (using a zip tie, a rubber band or a cord, or even making a knot using only its neck), as long as it doesn’t leak.
  4. When you have containers or bags full and ready for pickup, call licensed bio-hazardous medical waste management Coral Springs company to pick them up.

There you go! With these easy guidelines you can now safely dispose of human bio-hazardous waste in your healthcare facility. Remember, proper bio-hazardous medical waste management is something that should be an integral part of your daily working routine.