This guidance document provides instruction on segregation and disposal of metal sharps. Metal sharps include: needles, scalpels, razor blades and other metal blades. All metal sharps—regardless of ...

Macon County Health Department has installed a sharps disposal box at the main entrance for syringes, lancets and other sharps.

Home management of a chronic illness often requires the use of needles or lances. You may need to give your family member ...

The Macon County Health Department has installed a brand-new sharps disposal drop box. On Monday, the health department ...

Used sharps, including hypodermic needles for medical injections, require safe storage in an FDA-cleared container made of puncture-resistant, leak-proof plastic. If thrown in the trash, used needles ...

Matching the biohazardous waste container size to the waste generation rate will avoid an excessively long container fill time and will minimize the need to dispose of partially filled biohazardous ...

Information on disposal of biohazards, including “sharps” (needles whether they have been used with biohazards or not), microbiological, animal or plant biohazards and human bi-products (including ...

The event is intended to help keep the community safe by disposing of old expired medications and sharps. It's happening from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at St. Ann’s Lake County Senior Services in ...

I t’s important to manage and dispose of sharps (needles, lancets, and syringes) safely to prevent injury and disease transmission from needle-sticks. Because of the increased need for safe ...

All radioactive sharps must go to Radiation safety for disposal. Sharps (needles, syringes, blades, scalpels) cannot be disposed of with a Non-Biohazardous Waste Tag; they must be disposed of with a ...

or if you handle sharps during disposal. Even if you don’t regularly work with sharps, you may still come across sharps in a healthcare setting. It’s important to take the necessary ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) - The Macon County Health Department has installed a new sharps disposal drop box. The sharps disposal ...