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C <br />INFECTIOUS WASTE POLICY <br />1. Storage: <br />L` <br />a. The storerooms on the East and West wings, next to the fire doors, is de- <br />signated as the Infectious Waste Storage area. <br />b. A sign has been posted on the door in red with white lettering. It reads <br />in English and Spanish, "Caution - Infectious Waste Storage Area, Unautho- <br />rized Persons Keep Out". <br />c. The Storeroom is to be kept locked. <br />d. The Infectious Waste will be stored in a tightly covered garbage container, <br />labeled, "Infectious Waste". <br />e. Infectious Waste will be double bagged in red plastic bags, labeled "Infec- <br />tious Waste", securely tied and dated. <br />2: Disposal: <br />a. All Infectious Wastes will be disposed of in the red "Infectious Wastes" <br />bin, located in the rear of the building. <br />b. Stockton Scavenger Service picks up and disposes of the Infecitous Wastes <br />twice each week. <br />Infectious Wastes are defined as: <br />1. Significant laboratory wastes including pathologic specimens (which shall in- <br />clude all tissues, specimens or blood elements, excreta and secretions ob- <br />tained from patients) and disposable fomites (an object or article that is <br />not in itself harmful but is able to harbor pathogens and may serve as an agent <br />to transmit infectioun) attendant thereto. <br />To include: all dressings, tubing, catheters, drainage bags, colostomy supplies, <br />sharps*, swabs, etc. <br />2. Equipment, instruments, utensils and fomites of a disposable nature, from the <br />rooms of patients with suspected or diagnosed communicable disease requiring <br />isolation. <br />3. Nothing in this procedure shall be construed to limit the authority of the <br />local health officer to require waste to be treated as infectious. <br />*All syringes and needles are rendered unusable by cutting up in the "disposoclip" <br />(Destructoclip) machine in each medication room. They are then disposed of in <br />the "Infectious Waste" container in the storeroom on the East and West wings after <br />being double -bagged. <br />10X96 2FA <br />