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Sunrise Bio-Medical waste, which you may also know as bio-hazardous waste, requires some very careful and professional handling, treatment and disposal. In other words, a good bio-medical waste management Sunrise. A mistake made when handling regular, household waste will probably mean nothing more than a bad odor, but a health care facility does not have this kind of luxury when it comes to medical waste. Err here and you can seriously put someone’s health, even life in serious danger. This is why hospitals, clinics and other health care providers need to have a goods medical waste management system in place.
Knowing how to properly handle clinical waste and its procedures is important for the safety of your medical staff and patients. Here is a step by step guide to it.
- Used needles, scalpels and other sharps should be placed in a hard plastic sharps box right after their use. A medical care facility must have these ready for use at all times. When the time comes (usually at the end of the week) to get rid of the sharps container, you should contact your local bio-medical waste management company.
- Body liquids, such as blood, urine or vomit, should be poured in plastic containers with the word “biohazard” written on them. These containers are usually red or orange, which enables them to quickly draw attention and warn people about the fact that they are dangerous. It’s kinda like certain insects have distinctly bright colors to ward off predators. It is the Nature’s way of saying “back off, this guy is trouble!”
- Make sure that all the tools are accounted for and gathered at one place. Once that is done, you, or one of the technicians should bring them to the autoclave room for sterilization.
- Any non-pathological (non-infected) bodily organs, tissue or parts should be placed in a previously autoclaved medical waste disposal bag. These are also brightly colored (red most often) and should be readily available.
- Lab equipment like vials, forceps, Petrie dishes, pipette, lancets and forceps should be autoclaved if they have been exposed to any kind of biological material. An autoclave is a machine that forces hot water steam, under high pressure (usually 12 psi on solid waste and destroys almost all microorganisms on it
- If you are running a veterinary clinic, you will definitely have to deal with animal waste. Animal waste, be it tissue, organs, liquids, body parts and carcasses should never be mixed with human waste. Instead, seal it in an appropriate bag and give it to a Sunrise medical waste management company to dispose of. Note also that animal waste is only considered bio-medical if it contains pathogens that can also attack humans.
Well, that’s about it regarding Sunrise bio-medical waste management steps that you should take care of. If you have some doubts about things that haven’t been mentioned here, be sure to consult your state’s laws.
