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The necessity of Sunrise medical waste disposal for needles, scalpels, syringes and other sharps is definitely one that cannot be overstated. This necessity is one of the key elements in medical waste management Sunrise of every health care facility in the United States, between Florida and California, as well as the rest of the world (at least in those parts of the world where governments actually do care about making sure that their citizens don’t get a nasty infection because someone was too lazy to dispose of medical waste correctly).

A used needle (or some other sharp medical instrument) can contain traces of a pathogen that can be infectious and hazardous to humans. For example, if it was used to treat a patient with Hepatitis C, this virus can easily spread to the next person, be it someone from that health care facility’s medical personnel (a doctor or a nurse, for instance), the next patient, or a medical waste management company worker who is responsible for handling this waste. And even if the needle isn’t actually infected, the sheer process of time waiting for blood test result will make everyone very jumpy.

Health and Safety (HSE) on Sharps Medical Waste Disposal

In 2013, the HSE (Health and Safety) regulation for sharps instruments in health care issued the following statement:

“ All employers are required under existing health and safety law to ensure that risks from sharps injuries are adequately assessed and appropriate control measures are in place. The Sharps Regulations build on the existing law and provide specific detail on requirements that must be taken by healthcare employers and their contractors”.

Regulations 3 and 4 in particular, determine the employer’s responsibilities regarding Sharps Regulations. These, however, only apply for health care and other facilities that are using sharps in their work and to medical waste management, which are contracted to dispose of sharps waste. If you have any doubts whether your company needs to obtain a sharps container or not, the best course of action is to check this out with HSE. Although it should be evident, I think.

Sharps containers are placed wherever sharps instruments are disposed of (remember, sharps should never be left just lying around after use). This includes operating rooms, dentist’s rooms, emergency rooms, and any other place in the hospital or clinic where patients receive treatment or are being diagnosed.

Sharps Containers Colors

Sharps containers differ in their size and color. While the size merely serves to put more or less sharps waste in this respectable, color, on the other hand, is very important.

  • Yellow top sharps containers are used for medically contaminated sharps and should be incinerated
  • Orange sharps containers are used for non-medical sharps waste and these should be sterilized using an autoclave
  • Purple top sharps containers are used for cytotoxic and cytostatic contaminated sharps and are also incinerated.

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