“Any manufacturer or owner of potentially hazardous waste
has a legal ‘duty of care’ to handle the
disposal of hazardous waste safely and appropriately.”
Handle with care Morclean let us know about automatically safe sanitisation of clinical and medical waste.
Clinical, medical and sharps waste have to be dealt with much more sensitively than regular household waste. Any manufacturer or owner of potentially hazardous waste has a legal ‘duty of care’ to handle the disposal of hazardous waste safely and appropriately.
Failing to manage medical waste in the correct way can result in heavy fines and penalties, dishonour, and even immediate closure of a business.
What exactly is clinical waste?
Clinical waste is identified by the Controlled Waste Regulations 1992 as any waste that wholly or partly contains human or animal tissue, blood and bodily fluids, drugs or other pharmaceutical products. These forms of clinical and medical waste include, but are not limited to:
• Anatomical Waste (organs, body parts and blood bags) •
Infectious Waste (dressing and wipes, bandages, masks, gloves, aprons and PPE)
• Offensive Waste (empty colostomy bags, nappies and wipes and incontinence pads)
• Sharps Waste (needles, syringes, scalpels, scissors, clamps, pins and staples)
• Cytotoxic or Cytostatic Waste (blister packs, medicinal dials and patches)
• Dental Amalgam Waste (unwanted amalgam, and teeth with fillings)
Clinical and medical wastes exist within GP surgeries; hospitals; independent doctors, clinics, and centres; dental practices; veterinary services; pharmaceutical dispensaries; and research and development laboratories. All have the potential to cause infection or disease, making
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them a potential danger to those who come into contact with them.
Quality and safety standards when dealing with healthcare waste has to be at its highest and maintained at all times, which is why Morclean has developed the new BinWash AUTO, a fully enclosed system that cleans waste bins at the touch of a button as safely and hygienically as possible.
The BinWash AUTO can automatically wash two standard EU wheelie bins or one commercial EU wheelie bin at any one time, containing the water within the device. The machine operates with rotating dual cleaning heads and a hydraulic lift and lower mechanism to eliminate all manual handling, and any residual water is drained into the enclosed catchment area. The bins are then lowered to the floor again where the adjustable mechanism ensures they are back to the finished floor level and do not need to be lifted off the device.
For washing the external sides of the bins, there is an optional hand lance with hose reels and posts that can be fitted to the adjacent wash area.
The bin wash AUTO can be installed within a poly-carbonate splash screen and the entire system fitted over a surface mounted drainage grid, to reduce or eliminate any ground works or the need for drainage channels.
For additional safety, a gated barrier can also be installed with an override switch to ensure that there are no operators in the wash area as the bins are raised and lowered, and that the bins are in place before the cleaning heads are activated.
For more information about this bin wash system, visit the website below, email the team, or call the sales team on 01246 471147.
www.morclean.com
twitter.com/TomoCleaning
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