SPILL MANAGEMENT .pptx
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The document discusses spill management in a hospital setting. It aims to familiarize readers with regulatory standards, potential hazards of spills, and appropriate responses. Spills of body fluids, drugs, chemicals can occur at any time in a hospital due to equipment issues or human error, posing risks to staff, visitors, and susceptible patients. The document outlines different types of spills - biological, chemical, mercury - and provides guidelines for managing biological and mercury spills, including use of spill kits and proper cleaning procedures.
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- 2. Objectives • Become familiar with applicable regulatory standards • Demonstrate an understanding of potential hazards and appropriate responses • Spill kits to be ready for use.
- 3. Introduction • In a hospital, hazardous substances such as body fluids, drugs, cleaning fluids and other chemicals are in very close proximity to hundreds of people each day. Thus in hospital spillage of blood, body fluids or chemicals can occur at any time due to broken or faulty equipment or human error. Any such spill poses risk to the staff, visitors and patients who are extremely susceptible to infection.
- 4. Spill Kit
- 5. First, ask yourself 1. Am I safe? 2. Who else may be at risk, and how can I let them know? 3. What does the Contingency Plan say that I should do? 4. What help and tools do I need? 5. (Later) What can be learned from this?
- 6. Types of Spills in Hospital Setting • Biological Spill • Chemical Spill • Mercury Spill According to the Size Small Spill - Less than 10ml Large Spill – More than 10ml
- 7. Biological Spill (Blood and Body fluids)
- 8. Biological spill Management steps
- 16. Mercury Spill