Sharps Safety
This color marks sharps containers.
What is yellow or red?
The type of container is used for non-zoonotic IV catheters and plastic blood tubes.
What is a landfill container?
This type of waste includes non-zoonotic bandages and gauze sponges.
What is medical waste?
Sharps containers should be marked with this type of sticker.
What is a biohazard sticker?
All materials used in administering these agents should be place in a landfill container.
What are chemotherapy agents?
This method should be used when recapping needles.
What is the one-handed method?
Dead animals or animal parts are placed in this type of waster.
What is compost?
These vials can be placed in a landfill containers.
What are vaccine vials?
Once full, this should be placed over a sharps container and not removed again.
What is the lid?
What is compost?
These 5 items must be placed in a sharps container.
What are needles with attached syringes, suture needles, surgical blades, microscope slides and glass tubes for blood/urine/fecals?
Empty drug bottles should be disposed of this way, unless they contained chemotherapy drugs.
What is recycling?
TVH does not routinely perform these, but completed fungal ones should be considered medical waste.
What are lab cultures?
Instead of emptying full sharps containers, you should do this.
What is replace them with new ones?
Syringes with this characteristic are placed in landfill containers.
What is no needle attached?
This action with sharps containers is against the law.
What is opening sealed sharps container?
This type of waste is itemized and recorded in a drug log before disposal.
What are controlled drugs/narcotics?
These should be discarded in their normal labeled container and placed in an expired drug box.
What are discarded non-control drugs?
Full, sealed sharps containers should be placed here for proper disposal.
What is the Stock Room?
This type of waste needs special handling and should always go in a landfill container.
What is waste contaminated from zoonotic or chemotherapy-treated patients?
This company picks up sharps, expired drugs, and cytotoxic waste every 4 months.
Who is Stericycle?
All waste contaminated from this type of patient needs to go in a landfill container.
What are zoonotic or chemotherapy - treated patients?
This type of waste should be wrapped in a protective covering before being discarded n the landfill container.
What is material believed to be zoonotic?
This action should never be done with uncapped needles.
What is transferring them from one room to another?
These must be stored in a locked cupboard after being itemized and recorded.
What are discarded controlled drugs/narcotics?