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Medical Waste Management Fort Lauderdale – How to Purchase a Sharps Box?

A sharps box or a sharps container is one of the most important items that you will need for medical waste management. This is regardless of whether you are working in a huge hospital in New York or a small one in Fort Lauderdale in Florida.

Sharps are most commonly described as needles and other sharp objects used in medical care that could be dangerous to a person’s health if he or she gets stuck or cut with them. The healthcare industry, in particular has to make sure that these items are properly disposed of.

Proper disposal of needles, syringes, razor blades and other sharps involves putting them into solid, hard plastic containers, instead of putting them in a biohazardous waste bag with the rest of the medical waste. The reason for this is that these items would easily cut open the red bag and the contents of it (most of it is bio-hazardous, remember) would spill out. That could be a hazard of enormous proportions!

So, you already know why you need sharps boxes in medical waste management, now it is time to learn how to purchase one. That is what this article is all about, so keep on reading if you want to know more about buying sharps medical containers.

  1. First thing you have to do is make sure that the sharps box can be used for all of your sharps. This means measuring the size of your biggest sharps. You need to know how big of a sharps box will you need to accommodate your largest needle. In addition to this, you also need to check how large and deep the opening on the box will have to be. You don’t to have a needle sticking out of it.
  2. Next, you should determine the size of the sharps container that you will need. Basically, you should think about your medical waste management needs here. For example, a small dentist office in Fort Lauderdale would need a much smaller sharps container than a large clinic or hospital in Los Angeles would require.
  3. Select the design of the sharps container that you can use for all types of sharps waste that you will be disposing.
  4. Examine a few containers for their sturdiness. There are several factors that you have to take into account here if you want your medical waste management to go smoothly. The first one is that a sharps container must be made from durable material such as metal or some harder plastic. The container should be puncture resistant and leak proof both in normal working conditions and during transport.
  5. Pay a visit to several drugstores and department stores that have pharmacies. These are often the best place to shop for smaller sharps waste containers. Caveat emptor: the containers you can buy like this may not be of the quality comparable to those sold by medical waste management companies.
  6. A better course of action would be to contact a medical supply company for a sharps waste container. You may have to pay more for it, but on the upside, the quality of a container for sharps that you will buy this way will certainly be higher than if you go through a drugstore, department store or a tattoo supply shop. Moreover, many of these companies also offer medical waste disposal services for sharps as well.
  7. Get in touch with a medical waste collection company. This will be the most costly way of buying sharps containers, but the added benefit is that they won’t only provide the containers, but also pick them up and dispose of your medical waste.

There you go. I believe that this tidbit of information will actually prove useful in your future Fort Lauderdale medical waste management efforts.