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Bio-Medical Waste Management Coral Springs – Buying Sharps Containers

Is dumping used needles and other sharps waste into the trash bin still a part of your medical waste management Coral Springs routine? If it is, you should know that doing so puts a lot of people at risk of getting cut or pricked on your waste when they are handling it. With this, they can also contract a blood-borne infection such as HIV or Hepatitis C or B from one of your needles. Obviously, you can’t run this risks, not for the fear of getting charged for wrongful bio-medical waste management, which you most certainly will and should be prosecuted for if you are doing it, but for the sake of making sure that your fellow men don’t get infected because of something you could do, but didn’t.

Making sure that your sharps waste does not pose harm to anyone is actually really easy. All you need is to stop disposing of sharps with the rest of the waste and start first putting your needles, syringes, scalpels and any other medical tools and sharps objects such as broken glass, to special sharps containers.

  • No sharps containers and don’t know where to start to buy them?

If your healthcare facility doesn’t have sharps containers yet and you don’t know where to start to purchase one, then proceed reading.

Sharps Containers Requirements

First and foremost, there is no universal sharps box that you can use for all your sharps waste. You need to think about what you need from these containers first.

  • Function

Sharps boxes protect medical waste management Coral Springs workers from getting cut or pricked by infected syringes and also limit the chance of an infection spreading

  • Most common requirements

According to EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), all types of sharps waste generated by hospitals and other health care facilities should be placed into one of these boxes before they can go with the other waste.

These containers need to be closable, resistant to piercing, not easily breakable (it shouldn’t break if the bio-medical waste management worker accidentally drops it) and leak-proof (the container shouldn’t leak no matter on what side you turn it). In addition, sharps containers should have notches in the container neck to store sharps (although some states may not require this).

How to Buy a Sharps Box or Container?

Now that you know and hopefully understand the requirements of a sharps box, it is time to learn a thing or two about the buying process of this important medical waste management Coral Springs item.

  • Make sure that the sharps container can hold your biggest needles. If your largest needles and syringes can fit, so can the rest of them
  • Determine the size of the sharps box that you will need based on the volume of your medical waste.
  • Check if the container meets all the requirements we mentioned earlier. Is it durable enough? Does it leak anywhere? Can you close the lid securely?
  • Will you be using a disposable or reusable sharps case? If you are going with the second, them be prepared to sterilize it every time you use it.