Insulin sharps and clinical waste on a steady, predictable weekly rhythm — from a setting that counts as a health care facility.
Under SANS 10248-1, the definition of a health care facility explicitly includes old age homes. That surprises some managers, who reasonably think of the premises as residential. It matters because it determines how the waste coming out of the nursing rounds has to be handled.
Where nursing staff are giving injections, taking bloods and dressing wounds, that waste is health care risk waste and needs a licensed transporter.
This is the question we get asked most by frail care managers, and it is genuinely not simple. The classification of incontinence waste from a health care facility depends on the setting and on whether it meets the infectious waste test, and a set of draft national standards currently proposes changing it.
We would rather talk it through with you against your actual situation than give you a blanket answer on a web page that turns out to be wrong for your facility. Ask us and we will show you where it comes from.
Frail care generates steadily rather than in spikes, which makes it one of the easier facilities to schedule. Weekly is usual. You get a fixed day and a call before we arrive.
Month to month, priced on what you actually generate. Even if that is one container.
Get a quoteSend us a photo of what you are currently throwing away and we will tell you honestly whether you need us, and what it would cost.