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Medical waste, also sometimes referred to as bio-hazardous or clinical waste requires proper medical waste management Miami, especially in terms of handling and disposal. Any mistake done here can lead to serious environmental pollution, but what is more scary, can also cost someone his or her health.
The biggest generators of medical waste are, of course health care facilities, such as hospitals and clinics. This makes them the most responsible for proper medical waste management Miami and making sure that their waste does not endanger anyone. This requires careful planing and well trained personnel, coupled with a good medical waste disposal company.
So how is medical waste usually disposed of? Here is a detailed instruction on how to do that.
First, you should keep in mind that medical waste does not belong in ordinary trash bins or waste disposal bags. Instead, any infectious human waste goes into designated red bags, that have a clear “biohazard” sign on them. The only exception to this are sharps waste. These are needles, scalpels and other medical instruments capable of cutting or piercing human skin. Such items first have to go in a special sharps container bag and only after that in a red waste bag.
Sharps containers should be resistant to puncture, leak proof and generally made of a material that is not easy to bend or break. The container itself should have a lid that allows it to close securely and is usually red or orange, with a “biohazard” sing at the top or front. You can purchase these containers from any licensed medical waste management Miami company, or from a medical supply store.
Bodily fluids need to be poured into hard plastic containers that are also marked with “biohazard”. These containers are usually in bright colors, like red or orange, which makes them instantly recognizable among other waste containers. In order to further prevent leaking or a possible chance of dropping and breaking the container with infected blood in it, when carrying these containers, you should first place them in larger bins or buckets.
All surgical instruments should be first counted by a surgical technician to make sure that they are all accounted for. You do not want to have an infected scalpel or a razor blade to be just lying around waiting for someone to step on it or cut himself or herself by accident. Only when all sharps are accounted for can you send them to be autoclaved or sterilized with hot steam. Many health care facilities today have at least small autoclaves that they use for sanitizing sharps, but if you have a larger amount of clinical waste you want to clean up, you can always contact a medical waste management Miami company.
In addition to sharps, you should also use an autoclave on such laboratory items as vials, flasks, Petri dishes and anything else that has come in contact with blood or other biological materials.
Items such as amputated human body parts, organs or tissue should be destroyed using an incinerator. If you don’t have an incineration machine at hand, you can make use of the one in the Miami medical waste management company’s facilities.
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