Hi
Does anyone know what requirements are necessary to ensure a 'hired van' can be made leakprook when transporting clinical waste in bags? The waste transported is less than 333kg and a hard container/wheeled bin does not fit on the vehicle.
Thanks in advance

Hi John
Is this compliant with Carriage of Dangerous Goods?
What types of hazardous waste are you transporting?

If you wish, I can put you in touch with a highly respected ADR guru.

From my own perspective, my extensive dealings with clinical waste issues causes me to worry about the use of hire vans for transport. If modified to ensure compliance then all is OK, but hand the van back and it may well be used to deliver cream cakes!

Thorough and effective decontamination of the body is essential, since bags and bins leak, and there is much detectable, though sometimes unseen, contamination on the outside surfaces and wheels of Eurocarts etc.

Important also not to forget the cab, that must be properly separated from the load compartment to comply with ADR. Some further studies of mine presently in publication show contamination of the internal and external cab door handles and of the steering wheel from contaminated hands. Apart from the obvious issues of hand hugiene when handling clinical wastes and the almost certain lack of access to washing facilities almsot every driver will take off their contaminated gloves and carry them in ungloved hands to store them inside the cab. Using a forensic technique to visualise blood traces it is possible to follow the chain of contamination

Ccream cakes anybody?