Chemical waste refers to discarded chemicals that are toxic, corrosive, flammable and explosive.
(1) Chemical reagents discarded in medical imaging rooms and laboratories.
(2) Discarded chemical disinfectants such as peroxyacetic acid and glutaraldehyde.
(3) Discarded mercury sphygmomanometers and mercury thermometers.
"Medical Waste Classification Catalog" will be divided into five categories of medical waste:
1 Infectious waste refers to medical waste carrying pathogenic microorganisms with the risk of spreading infectious diseases, including items contaminated by patients' blood, bodily fluids, feces, and garbage produced by patients with infectious diseases, such as plastic products of medical waste;
2 Pathological waste refers to human waste and medical experimental waste produced during diagnostic and therapeutic treatment;
2 Pathological waste refers to human waste and medical experimental waste produced during diagnostic and therapeutic treatment. Pathological waste refers to the diagnosis and treatment process of human waste and medical experimental animal carcasses, including surgery produced by the discarded human tissue, pathological section of discarded human tissue, pathological wax blocks, etc.;
3 Injurious waste refers to the human body can be stabbed or cut the discarded medical sharps, including medical needles, scalpels, scalpels, glass test tubes, etc.;
4 Pharmaceutical waste refers to the expiration date, out of date, deterioration or contaminated discarded medicines, including waste of medical wastes plastic products. Pharmaceutical waste refers to obsolete, obsolete, deteriorated or contaminated waste medicines, including waste general medicines, waste cytotoxic drugs and genotoxic drugs, etc.
5 Chemical waste refers to toxic, corrosive, flammable and explosive waste chemicals, such as waste chemical reagents, chemical disinfectants, mercury sphygmomanometers, mercury thermometers and so on.
Expanded Information:
Medical wastes can pollute water bodies through a variety of ways, such as with surface runoff into rivers and lakes, or migrate with the wind and fall into water bodies, especially when medical waste is placed in the open air or mixed with domestic waste in open piles.
Harmful substances in the role of rain, it is easy to flow into the rivers, lakes and seas, resulting in serious pollution and damage to water bodies. The most serious is that some medical and health institutions will even be medical waste directly dumped into rivers, lakes or coastal waters, resulting in greater pollution.
Collection and transportation details:
1, according to the category in special packaging or containers, to ensure that the packaging or containers are not broken, leakage and other defects, broken packaging should be treated as therapeutic waste.
2, the waste should not be overfilled, more than 3/4 of the time should be sealed, sealed tightly and tightly, indicating the department and the number of.
3, classified collection, no mixing; no leakage; no dirt (sharps into the sharps box, non-sharps into the bag).
4, transport to prevent loss, leakage, proliferation and direct contact with the body; transport of medical waste should be used to prevent infiltration, put spillage, no sharp edges and corners, easy to load and unload and clean special delivery tools, various packaging and delivery tools should be dedicated to the identification of medical waste.
5, the establishment of medical waste storage, equipment, not open storage, and set up a person responsible for the management.
6, do a good job of registration, including the source, type, weight and quantity, handover time, the final destination and the operator's signature, etc., the information is kept for three years.
7, the temporary storage of waste, facilities and timely cleaning and disinfection treatment, prohibit the transfer of medical waste trading.
8, medical waste storage time shall not exceed 2 days, after the end of the daily work on the transportation tools for cleaning and disinfection.
9, the occurrence of medical waste loss, leakage, proliferation and accidents occur, should be promptly reported to the competent administrative department of health within 48 hours; resulting in the occurrence of infectious diseases, according to the relevant provisions of the report, and emergency treatment.
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