Knowing your Waste
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Waste
The management of healthcare waste is
an essential part of ensuring that health and social care activities do not pose
a risk of infection. To manage healthcare waste effectively, health and social
care providers need to consider:
· Infection control and health and safety
legislation.
· Environment and waste legislation.
Any waste that is created that has the possibility
of being infectious needs to be disposed of in a Bio Waste Bin this should be
Yellow or Orange.
If you have transported a patient with
a highly infectious illness or any bodily fluids have leaked onto your linen
this is then hazardous waste and needs to be pleased in a sealed/tied yellow
bag and placed in a yellow bin at your very first available opportunity.
At no point should you leave hazardous
waste in the rear of your vehicle longer than needed.
Should you have hazardous waste on the
vehicle whilst collecting another patient this needs to be sealed and placed
out of site in an isolated place.
Whilst handling hazardous waste PPE
should be work.
Non-hazardous waste should be disposed
of as per government recycling guide lines.
Used Non Contaminated Linen
Any used non contaminated linen is to be placed in a red bag, these bags disolve in washing machines protecting the people who have to handle them later, no dirty linen should be left loose and removed with any other waste at the end of your shift.
