Friday, 7 June 2013

Handling Of Biomedical Waste Florida

By Lucille Lamb


Many of the hospitals, health clinics, nursing homes, dentists, laboratories and piercing salons in Florida are the sources of health based wastes. These are wastes that originate from the diagnosis, treatment and immunization of human being. Management of biomedical waste Florida is the major concern of the government for the case of the public well being.

In Florida, department of health has a vital role to play. Waste generations and storage through this department are managed well. The wastes generating institutions must be registered by the department to ensure there is a safe method of handling health based wastes.

Generators of these wastes are many in number. They comprises of health clinics, hospitals, medical research laboratories and nursing homes. These organizations produce wastes that may contain variety of items that may carry disease causing germs like hepatitis virus and HIV virus. As a measure of protecting human life, these generators must abide by the law put in place by the state.

The public should be educated on the needs to consider some preventive measures which will help in maintaining a good health in case of emergence of these and related output. Hand washing and entire cleaning of the body after handling them must be a routine to everybody life. Cleanliness ensures that there is no contamination that may cause infection to human being.

The health department manages the process of production, storage, transportation and some of the disinfection on the biological wastes. The wastes produced should be stored only for duration of thirty days from the time it is placed into the disposal containers. Any extra time needed to store the waste beyond the thirty days should be paid for and a permit issued.

The containers that are used in the storage and transportation of the wastes should be puncture and breakage resistance. Packing is done by trained individuals who are registered by the department and know and not any staff in the organization. The containers are then packed and sealed in another packaging. A label is that attached to the container with the international medical symbol and should have the words health output written of it.

Those handling these wastes in a health center should be trained carefully. On handling the wastes, the person should use aprons and disposable latex gloves to prevent one from skin or cloth contact. In cases where the clothes are soiled they should be thrown away or taken to laundry services. The needles and syringes should not be handled with bare hands and in cases of cuts they should be properly be bandaged before handling this wastes.

Waste storage and treatment organization employ a lot of mechanism to ensure that these wastes are properly disposed. Research on biomedical waste Florida explains on the best disposable method that involves digging a pit two meters. These wastes are placed half way and then lime which serves a chemical for decomposition is poured. The rest of the pit is filled with the soil in an area that is free from flooding and erosion.




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