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•I I 11IM11551• POLICY # 03 Page 3 of 4 2. The bags shall be tied to prevent leakage or expulsion of contents during all storage, handling or transport. 3. Biohazardous waste is separated and contained at the point of generation. It is transported from the generation point to the secure storage area by using rigid transportation carts that are covered and labeled with the international biohazard symbol. 4. The storage area is secured so as to deny access to unauthorized persons. Warning signs are posted in English and Spanish, identifiable at 25 feet. 5. Environmental Services personnel will clean up all spills of biohazardous waste immediately. Any injury from handling biohazardous waste must be reported to Employee Health. 6. Medical waste that has not been autoclaved is not stored for more than seven days on the premises. 7. The following departments or areas are approved for all patient care waste to be processed as biohazardous waste: Surgery, Short Stay Surgery, Labor and Delivery, Dialysis, Central Processing, SICU, and the Central Sterile Processing Decontamination area. 8. Needles and sharps are contained in red, rigid puncture -proof containers, disposed of by Environmental Services according to policy. 9. Pharmaceutical waste is contained in blue pharmaceutical waste containers, disposed of by Environmental Services personnel according to policy. G. Pre-treatment of all wastewater, including toilets and graywater from showers and sinks, is required if the wastewater is generated from a patient diagnosed with Ebola Virus Disease. For toilet waste, disable the auto- flush if available and instruct the patient not to manually flush the toilet. Add bleach (1 cup per bowl of 5% or greater sodium hypochlorite) or low alcohol quaternary ammonium disinfectant (with documented effectiveness against norovirus and enterovirus) and hold for 15 minutes prior to flushing.