We have office and light manufacturing facilities at our premises. After we sent two of our employees on a 3 day first aid at work course, they came back and enquired why we didn't have any clinical waste bins on the premises - we've never had any. We don't deal with sharps or bodily fluids, only risk may be when dealing with elastoplasts/bandages etc with blood, but no instances to date (touch wood) Question is - do we need a clinical waste bin, or are we OK (as I thought) to ensure these items are double bagged and put into normal waste?

Your current arrangements are perfectly safe and fully compliant with your obligations to waste management. The wastes are not unduly hazardous, but should be handled with care. Glove use may at times be warranted, and hand washing is essential. Wastes should be wrapped in paper and placed into a black sack with domestic-type waste. As long as these are just an occasional waste arising, the situation is analogous to similar wastes from the domestic environment. Dressings etc into sacks, but gauzes and the like (don't use cotton wool on open wounds) can go down the loo if you prefer.

No. That is wrong. If the waste is handled carefully, whether you know of some possibly coincidental virus carriage or not, small arisings as described CAN and should be placed into the domestic waste stream.

Precisely the advise I give, have given and will continue to give.