4. Who are in risk from
healthcare waste???
Doctors and Nurses.
Patients.
Health care providers and
treatment employees.
Environment and public health.
Dentists and dental workers.
blood bank technologists.
Laboratory technologists.
housekeeping personnel.
5. How does exposure
occur?
Most common: needle
sticks.
Cuts from other
contaminated sharps
(scalpels, broken glass
, etc.).
Contact of mucous
membranes (for
example, the
eye, nose, mouth) or
broken (cut or abraded)
skin with contaminated
blood.
6. Points of problems:
Waste Transport Transport Place
Waste or to ready
segregat transform central for waste
generati ation
on ion storage disposal
Points of risk inside a healthcare facility
Waste Interim Fleet Transport External
treatment storage manage- and waste
and of waste ment, tracing collection
disposal logistic of waste
Points of risk outside a healthcare facility
9. Safety procedures (when
dealing with hazardous
medical waste):
Wearing:
Apron.
Safety goggles.
Nose mask.
High neck rubber
boots.
Then: Wash face and hands up
to the elbows with water
and disinfectant soap after
each handling of hazardous
medical waste.
10. Safety Requirements: -
Nose mask Gloves Apron
High neck rubber boot Safety goggles
11. Principals of dealing with the
Hazards medical wastes Inside
the health Care Institutions