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Documentation for non-clinical transport of syringes etc?
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Hi,
We have a team of mobile engineers who regularly come across syringes etc in remote work sites, (particularly in sewage and water treatment pits/pipework),and as the work is generally time sensitive we need to be able to provide them with the relevant equipment and training to be able to collect these items, store them in a sharps box and take them back to base for colelction. there isn't the time available to wait for someone else to come to the location and do the removal.
My question is, do we need a licence for the Engineers to carry the sharps box in their van? There is lots of guidance for the transport of items when in a healthcare environment, but not in other business sectors...the items are not strictly 'clinical' waste as they may not have been used in clinical procedures - more likely drug use.
Thanks
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Drug use/abuse still makes clinical waste
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We use syringe and needles to apply glue to plastics, we are still needing to dispose of as clinical waste and not hazardous as needles can be used for other things which are not work related.
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NO
But you will need a liccenced carrier from your base.
Ive used sharps bins for fibre optic term points and had the same problem.
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ADR only applies when there is more than the minimum amount for any one item. We had this sort of discussion a few weeks ago and it was agreed that transporting an occasional gas cylinder did not come under ADR. I cannot imagine that a single CinBin with few syringe needles in it falls under ADR.
But of course once you have accumulated them at base then it has to be disposed of a per the regs.
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