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Hi Helen,
We put PPE from rooms with transmission based precautions into general waste unless they are visibly soiled and / or fit the definition of clinical waste.
Most of our PPE from these patients goes into general waste.
Clinical waste means any waste resulting from medical, nursing, dental, pharmaceutical, skin penetration or other related clinical activity, being waste that has the potential to cause injury, infection or offence, and includes waste containing any of the following:
human tissue (other than hair, teeth and nails)
bulk body fluids or blood
visibly blood-stained body fluids, materials or equipment
laboratory specimens or cultures
animal tissue, carcasses or other waste from animals used for medical research. https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/environment/clinicalwaste/Pages/default.aspx
Kind regards,
Susan
Susan Farrugia
Infection Control Coordinator
Arcadia Pittwater Private Hospital
4 Daydream Street
Warriewood NSW
Infectioncontrol@arcadiapittwater.com.au
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From: ACIPC Infexion Connexion On Behalf Of Helen Roberts
Sent: Tuesday, 23 February 2021 2:34 PM
To: ACIPCLIST@ACIPC.ORG.AU
Subject: [ACIPC_Infexion_Connexion] PPE waste
Good afternoon everyone,
Just enquiring in which waste bin (general or clinical) do staff put their PPE after being in a precautions room (MRSA, VRE, CDiff etc).
Currently, we put all our PPE in to clinical waste.
I cannot see a clear directive in the Guild line for Prevention and control of infection in healthcare.
Do you place it in general waste or clinical waste?
Thanks in advance
Helen
Helen Roberts
Infection Control
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07 4646 3106
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07 4633 7602
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280 North St, Toowoomba, QLD 4350
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