CM5 Safe waste disposal

CM5 Safe waste disposal

Questions

• There will be questions throughout the Quizizz, please put your answers in the provided space.

• I may ask you separate questions, please put these in the Teams chat.

Assignment 3 recap

• Personal hygiene

• Hand washing

• PPE

Open Ended

Any questions about Task 3?

Today

Safe waste disposal

Learning aim

• Explain the process of safe waste disposal

Topics of today:

• Clinical & non clinical Waste

• Colour codes

• Linen & Body fluids

• Sharps & equipment

Breakout groups

• I am going to allocate you into a group.

• You will need to switch back to your teams app.

Waste in Health and Social care

• Health and social care workplaces will produce waste such as syringes, sharps, swabs and bandages.

• Some of these may be hazardous and harmful to health as they may be infectious, containing microorganism that can cause harm, or be radioactive or toxic.

Clinical and Non clinical waste

Multiple Choice

Clinical waste is

• Waste that may pose a risk of infection

• Waste that is non-infectious

Clinical waste

• It includes medical waste such as swabs, dressing, syringes, and any blood, human tissue or other bodily fluids and unwanted medicines.

• It will need to be disposed of in a safe way to ensure that it does not cause harm to others. 

Non Clinical waste

• Is everything else such as food, paper, packaging, and so on. 

• Equipment should be decontaminated and then disposed of in accordance with the manufacturers instructions. 

Poll

Who is responsible for disposing of waste?

• Employees

• Environmental Health Officers.

• Employers

• Local council

Open Ended

Anyone know what cytotoxic means?

Linen and Body Fluids

Multiple Choice

What is linen?

• Pillow

• Duvet

• Bed sheets

• Mattress

Used Linen

• Use disposable gloves and apron to remove used linen from the bed.

• It should be placed in the correct linen bag and taken to designated collection area.  

Soiled Linen

• The linen should be gathered so that the contaminated area (e.g. faeces) is contained within the linen.

• The linen should be placed in a water-soluble laundry bag which can be placed directly into the washing machine. 

Body Fluids

• Bodily fluids, particularly blood and faecal matter, can present a hazard as they carry pathogens.

• PPE and appropriate buckets and cleaning equipment should be used to avoid transmission of infection. 

Open Ended

You are working in a care home and you are in charge of changing the bedding for each of the 45 beds. 

- Each bed has 2 sets of linen. 

- Each laundry bag can take up to 20 sets of linen.





Question – How many bags are required to change all the beds?

Maths time

• Scenario

  ◦You are working in a care home and you are in charge of changing the bedding for each of the 45 beds.

  ◦Each bed has 2 sets of linen.

  ◦Each laundry bag can take up to 20 sets of linen.

• Question – How many bags are required to change all the beds?

• ◦45x2 = 90

  ◦90/20 = 4.5 (So 5 bags are required)

Sharps and Equipment

Open Ended

When may you come into contact with sharps as a HSC worker?

How should you dispose of sharps?

Sharps

• Health and social care practitioners will come into contact with sharps when using needles for injections, suturing and removing sutures.

• Sharps should be disposed of in a sharps box, which is a plastic container with a lid that cannot be opened. 

Equipment

• There is a variety of equipment used within health and social care settings.

• Some can be disposable such as feeding tube and cannulas. These must be disposed of appropriately, such as in a clinical waste bag.

Recap of todays lesson

• Clinical & non clinical Waste

• Colour codes

• Linen & Body fluids

• Sharps & equipment

Open Ended

What is one thing you have learnt from today?

Poll

Which of the topics today did you find the most challenging? (You can choose more than one)

• Clinical & Non clinical waste

• Colour codes

• Linen & Body fluids

• Sharps & equipment

Task for you to do

• Using your books and online research, find out what legislation, policies and procedures links to safe waste disposal?

• We will start next lesson with your answers.

Policies and procedures 

• All organisations will have policy and procedures that relate to safe waste disposal.

• These should always be followed. 

Examples of policies and procedures 

• Collection, handling and storing of specimens

• Disposal of waste

• Disposal of PPE

• Food hygiene procedures.