Spill Management Training Material

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Cleaning Methods for Blood Spills and Body Substances

Clean spills with a 0.5-1.0 percent chlorine solution.

Clean spills of blood, body fluids and other potentially infectious fluids immediately:

a. Cover the area immediately with any absorbent material like tissue paper, old newspaper, and gauze piece.

b. For small spills: While wearing utility or examination gloves, remove visible material using a cloth soaked in a 0.5-1.0 percent chlorine solution, then wipe clean with a disinfectant cleaning solution.

For large spills: While wearing gloves, flood the area with a 0.5-1.0 percent chlorine solution, mop up the solution, and then clean as usual with detergent and water.

 

You are in a floor & there is a minor spillage, how do you manage?

Minor spillage< 10 diameter (spill of 10ml syringe)

ü  Place the caution hazardous material sign board

ü  Mark the area sufficiently so that the solution poured remains within demarcation

ü  Place tissue over the spill

ü  Inform housekeeping to clean & mop

ü  HK wear gloves

ü  HK spray 1% sodium hypochlorite over the spill

ü  Keeps for 10 minutes

ü  Disposes waste in yellow bag along with PPE

 

You are in a floor & there is a major spillage, how do you manage?

ü  Major spillage> 10cm diameter (spill of more than 10ml of syringe)

ü  Alert people

ü  Place yellow cleaning sign board

ü  Cover spill with paper towel/ absorbent

ü  Inform HK to clean

ü  HK wear PPE

ü  HK pours 10% sodium hypochlorite over the spill

ü  Keep for 20 minutes

ü  Take the paper towel/ absorbent paper into to dusting pan with the help of brush

ü  Disposes waste in yellow bag

ü  Clean the area with Bacillocid

ü  Dispose all the PPE in yellow bag

ü  Nurses supervisor fills the incident form

 

 

What do you do in case of blood spill on patient file?

Contaminated file is put in a yellow color bag, sealed, labeled and sent to MRD. There they photocopy the entire file and send the Xerox file back to the ward with authorized signature form Director/Consultant/Nursing Staff.