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Special Medical
Waste
From 29 CFR
1910.1030: Regulated Waste means liquid or semi-liquid blood or
other potentially infectious materials; contaminated items that
would release blood or other potentially infectious materials in a
liquid or semi-liquid state if compressed; items that are caked with
dried blood or other potentially infectious materials, and are
capable of releasing these materials during handling; contaminated
sharps; and pathological and microbiological wastes containing blood
or other potentially infectious materials.
29 CFR 1910.1030 (A):
Contaminated sharps shall be discarded immediately or as soon as
feasible in containers that are (i) closable; (ii) puncture
resistant; (iii) leakproof on sides and bottom; and (iv) labeled or
color-coded in accordance with paragraph (g) (1) (i) of this
standard.
The following
sharps must be disposed into a SHARPS DISPOSAL CONTAINER:
Blood tubes
Broken Instruments
Burrs
Butterfly Needles
Capillary Tubes
Carpules
Cutting Instruments
Dental Wires (exposed ends)
Hypodermic Needles |
Instrument
Blades
Lancettes
Magic Sticks
Matrix Bands
Needles (syringes and metal tips)
Pipettes
Scalpels
Slides
Test Tubes (glass and plastic) |
Articles to be disposed in red
bag lined, marked bio-hazard box:
Bandages
Bibs
Casts (areas soiled by body fluids)
Catheters (tubing and suction)
Clinical Specimens
Compresses
Cotton Gauze
Cotton Tip Applicators
Dip Sticks
Ejectors
Etiologic Agents
Expired Drugs
Extracted Teeth
Gloves
Medical Dressings
Packing
Urine and Stool cups |
Pathological Wastes
Plastic Pluggers
Poultices
Rubber Dam
Saliva Evacuators
Soiled Disposable Diapers
Soiled Table Paper
Soiled Tray Covers
Speculums
Stupes
Suction Tubing
Surgical Anatomy
Sutures
Swabs
Throat Cultures
Tongue Depressors
Test Strips |
All sharps, cotton, gauze, paper
or plastic articles which have been in contact with a
potentially infectious agent must be properly disposed into a
Sharps Disposal Container or clearly identified bio-hazard box.
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