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Bio-Hazardous Waste Disposal Coral Springs Guidelines
Any waste material that is produced by medical care facility or other institution or business that can carry pathogens capable of transmitting an infectious disease to humans is considered to be bio-hazardous waste. Naturally, every healthcare provider, whether it is only a small local veterinary clinic, or a large hospital, needs to have a medical waste management Coral Springs plan and program that will ensure that people are protected from possible infections coming from this kind of waste.
Bio-hazardous waste disposal includes six types of medical waste:
- Blood and blood products
- Pathogen waste
- Microbiological waste
- Human bodily fluids
- Animal waste
- Sharps waste
This article is written with the purpose of giving you some useful guidelines for medical waste management Coral Springs and its disposal. If you are interested in knowing a bit more about this, keep on reading.
Disposables
The first rule of bio-hazardous waste disposal is that all biohazard waste should go special red bags. The only exception to this are sharps waste. They first need to be placed in containers to minimize the threat of someone getting pricked by an infected needle. Only then can sharps as well be placed in a red bio-hazard bag.
The bags themselves, apart from being red, also need to have a universal biohazard symbol on them. Together, these two indicators help clearly identify that whatever is in those bags, it is biohazardous and thus dangerous to human life.
These bags should never be full to the brim. Instead, you should leave some space to be able to close it. This can be done in one of several ways:
- Hand-tying the bag’s neck into a knot, without using anything else
- Using a zip line to tie the bag
- Using some sort of rope or cord to tie the bag
- Using a rubber band or something similar to tie the bag
Basically, you can tie the bio-hazardous bag in any way that you want and is easiest to you, as long as no contents can leak when you flip it upside down.
Once you fill the red bag, you need to put them into boxes or containers, which also need to be clearly marked for bio-hazardous waste disposal.
Body Parts
Generally, body parts, organs, tissue and other solid waste from humans and animals should be destroyed in an anatomy crematorium. If there is no incinerator available, then this waste should be sterilized and sent to a landfill with the rest of the biohazardous waste in a leak-proof container
Blood
Blood first needs to be disinfected before disposal. If the amount is small (less than 50ml), then it can be treated with bleach and simply sent to the sewage. For larger amounts, this waste first has to be treated with an isolyzer (it changes the blood’s aggregate form from liquid to solid). Only then can it be sent to a medical waste management Coral Springs facility for disposal.
Sharps
Like previously mentioned, only dispose of sharps in proper containers. These are commonly made of hard plastic and will usually be red. The container should by know means leak or allow its content to poke outside.
