Healthcare Environmental Services in Longbenton, North Tyneside, built up stockpiles of body parts and other medical waste and was ordered to dispose of the stored material. It went into liquidation […]
After HES Ltd, it seems that the Press are working hard to keep everyone on their toes. Finding wastes stored inappropriately at this Scottish hospital is causing red faces and, […]
Health chiefs are being urged to plough more resources into Renfrewshire’s main hospital after inspectors uncovered a string of hygiene failures. Concerns have been raised that extra investment is needed to […]
Bags containing IV tubes and “pooled blood” were found in the street by a “shocked” passer-by. Toby Robson found several biohazard bags to his “horror and disgust” in Prospect Place, […]
A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing. And so it is when the public are fobbed off with headline statements regarding safety that address only one small part […]
A San Francisco Bay Area school district advised the families of 14 elementary school students to take their children to doctors after another student pricked them with a needle, a […]
Patients’ medical details have been found dumped in a bin near Tunbridge Wells. The confidential information of patients, along with medical waste was found scattered across a road and in […]
The Drug Disposal System-Pill Crusher is a specially designed device to feed pills (medications) into, and they are crushed automatically. It is operated by a sensor and a permanent lock […]
It seems strange to think what people might take with them when they appear in Court. Nothing incriminating would seem to be a good choice, but perhaps not so in […]
Though the Clinical Waste Discussion Forum and Blenkharn Environmental have long-supported postal delivery of small volumes of sharps waste from home users, diabetics and others, to ease the process of […]
Though it would be unthinkable to wish a sharps or needlestick injury on anyone, there is just a hint of poetic justice in the report from the Exeter Express and […]
A single mum whose daughter pricked her finger on a blood-stained needle discarded on a bus has spoken of the two month ordeal her family endured before finally getting the […]
The number of young men in London injecting steroids is rising on a “regular basis” a drugs charity has warned. South Westminster Drug and Alcohol Service said an increasing number […]
An Ebola waste task force has been created by WasteAid International and Disaster Waste Recovery to help meet West Africa’s waste disposal needs in the midst of the Ebola crisis. […]
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has branded Cerne Abbas Care Home in Dorset as inadequate in all areas in a report published 2 December 2014. The watchdog visited the facility in […]
Dr Suresh D Pillai doesn’t want to sensationalize the use of electron beam technology by solely talking about using it to sanitize Ebola virus contaminated equipment and wastewater. However, he […]
Ebola waste is a huge problem, but fortunately the heat resistance of Ebola virus is not particularly great. Autoclave treatment would suffice, and of course incineration. Added to this is […]
At best, hospitals are rather soulless places. With stark design, neutral – or is that bland? – colour schemes, and limited furnishings further justified now to aid infection prevention, even […]
It is, to many of us, quite straightforward. Use a sharps bin and ensure that this is securely located away from curious little hands, in a place from where it […]
Using sharps containers to dispose sharp waste is emerging as a standard practice in various healthcare institutions. These containers are used for disposing off the sharp wastes, like needles etc […]
Going to Dundee? Then do be careful are watch where you tread. Newspaper reports raising concern after 180 discarded needles found in Dundee paint a gloomy picture of what is, […]
A 16 month old toddler has died after overdosing on iron tablets he thought were ‘Mummy’s sweets’ after his sister climbed onto the bathroom sink to reach them. When children are […]
We at the Clinical Waste Discussion Forum and at Blenkharn Environmental have always promoted the use of cable ties to fasten clinical and other healthcare waste sacks. Toothed or serrated […]
A young girl was reportedly “distraught” after finding syringes on her seat on a Melbourne tram seat, according to a witness. The needles were concealed on her seat, according to […]
“St. Elizabeth Hospital in Belleville, Illinois is to pay a $10,000 state fine for allegedly failing to properly store hazardous waste and for other violations. “The fine stems from an inspection of […]
Sharps bins contain dangerous items, as those suffering the shock and trauma, and possibly the consequences of a sharps injury will attest. But sometimes, we manage to make it worse, placing […]
A mother makes a shocking discovery in the playground at Burger King on Buena Vista Road in Columbus, Georgia. She said her son was stuck with a needle at the end of […]
A burning Detroit warehouse filled with medical (clinical) waste has been linked to medical problems in those living nearby. With dramatic footage of the fire, reports that the warehouse held […]
Discarded needles and other drug use and injection paraphernalia is a widespread problem, of immediate safety and wider public concern. Approaches to management of this problem includes the obvious, that […]
A Batley pensioner is struggling to have her used diabetic needles collected. Describing her ‘nightmare’ to the local press with fears about the accumulation of sharps boxes in her home [presumably, […]