Medical waste is not exclusive to healthcare practices, and perhaps more common, but less talked about facilities include government agencies, like VA hospitals, prisons, and military bases. This week, we’ve taken a deeper look into some of the industries we serve that go above and beyond healthcare facilities like hospitals and medical clinics. Medical waste […]
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Airport Medical Waste? Handling Medical Waste in the Least Likely Places. Being in the medical waste removal industry, we tend to cover a lot of topics that deal with more common medical waste producers, such as hospitals, laboratories, and medical clinics. While those are the more common producers of medical waste, there are some obscure
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Workplace Safety: Why the Medical Waste Community Needs OSHA If workplace safety is important to you, you need to know about OSHA. “OSHA doesn’t kill jobs; it helps prevent jobs from killing workers.” These are the words written by Dr. David Michaels when he became head of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in 2009.
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Bloodborne Pathogens: 5 Facts What are bloodborne pathogens and why did OSHA create a formal standard to deal with the hazards? Bloodborne pathogens are an occupational hazard for healthcare workers and other employees who may be exposed to blood and other potentially infectious materials as a result from the performance of their duties. According to
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Top Medical Waste Removal Mistakes Is your facility guilty of these common medical waste removal mistakes? Laboratories, hospitals, private practice offices, dental facilities, and even veterinary offices are all places that produce medical waste, and they are required by federal, state, and even local laws, to create a medical waste removal plan. Despite the abundance
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Must-Haves for Infection Control Be sure to have these must-haves handy for optimal infection control. Infection control programs help identify and reduce risks of infections in patients and healthcare workers, but any good plan requires a list of must-haves to make the plan functional to prevent lapses, mistakes, and health risks. Healthcare facilities and other
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3 Ways to Reduce Medical Waste Why reduce medical waste? The answer is simple: it can help cut costs while keeping the environment safe. How much medical waste does your facility produce in a week? A month? A year? A medical waste removal program is designed to mitigate risk and prevent contamination for staff and
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All About Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Personal protective equipment, commonly referred to as PPE, is equipment worn to minimize exposure to a variety of hazards. Every person that stays in or visits a healthcare environment is at risk of acquiring an infection but for the healthcare worker, the risk is greater. Workers are more susceptible
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The EPA Rule on Pharmaceutical Waste: What You Need to Know The EPA proposed new Management Standards for Hazardous Pharmaceutical Waste sets regulations on how we dispose of pharmaceutical waste. Pharmaceutical waste management is a long and complicated topic that falls within the hub of hazardous waste management. Many studies conducted in the U.S. have
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