Spill Management Training Material
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.