Medical Practices Should Always Use a Regulatory Compliance Checklist for All Medical Waste Removal
Compliance Checklists Help Your Medical Facility Stay Safe
First and foremost, a checklist is a step-by-step guide that spells out what you need to do to stay compliant. This is important because those regulations are there to ensure your medical waste is always disposed of in the safest manner possible.
A checklist such as this will often cover high-level procedures, such as the need to implement a written exposure control plan, to the more detailed policies, such as everything that goes into proper sharps disposal.
When you're properly storing, transporting, and treating all your medical waste, you are helping ensure the safety of you, all the employees and staff of your medical facility, and anyone who comes in contact with your waste in its progression to the proper treatment facility.
Say, for example, you're working without a checklist, and you forget an important step related to regulated medical waste disposal. This could result in the waste not being properly treated in a medical waste autoclave or someone being stuck by used needles that weren't first put in puncture-resistant sharp bins.
In any of these scenarios, you're putting someone's safety at risk, and a checklist can walk you through exactly what you need to do every time, which helps ensure no careless mistakes or omissions in protocol are made.
Compliance Checklists Help Your Medical Facility Avoid Fines
Whenever a medical facility is found to be out of compliance at any level (local, state, or federal), that facility puts itself at risk of having to pay massive fines. Note, the severity of the violation and whether it's a repeat offense contribute to how steep of a fine you'll be required to pay.
A checklist helps ensure you're covering all the necessary bases at every step of the disposal process, and it cuts down on the potential for human error, which can lead to significant fines.
Reach Out to Medical Waste Disposal Companies
The medical waste disposal industry is always changing and evolving. If you're struggling to keep up with the changes or are unsure if you are still operating in the most compliant and cost-effective manner, consider contacting your local medical waste disposal companies.
As long as you are careful and thorough about how you pick the company, a medical waste disposal company can provide advice, waste disposal tips, and assistance with all your waste-related needs. This includes a thorough, up-to-date checklist to help ensure your facility is taking into account every necessary step.
For more information or questions about why your doctor's office should use a compliance checklist, please feel free to contact a representative of MCF Environmental Services today, and for your FREE compliance checklist, click below!
