Habits previously restricted to the four walls of a hospital to prevent the transmission of infection have now spread fast throughout the world. Public attitudes about infection control have altered considerably from busy cities to rural areas, public transportation to commercial airplanes, food store behemoths to local farmers markets. In just a few months, there has been a renewed focus on hand cleanliness, reducing the transmission of infection, and advocating for social distancing. This is a global unity, with a focus on healthcare, that has not been seen since the Spanish flu of 1918. Everyone, from all over the world, has poured their full political and social energy into supporting the front lines of healthcare.
Throughout the epidemic, Trihaz was approached by hospitals, governments, and other types of healthcare facilities in need of waste containment solutions that prioritize safety. Our business was prepared for this because our services and containment solutions are designed to remove the risk of surface infection transfer when processing waste, allowing us to provide increased protection to frontline staff handling hospital waste quickly.
The Effect Hospital of Waste Management on Hygiene
Trihaz Solutions was created with a vision that fundamentally altered the cleanliness, safety, and hygiene requirements in hospital waste management. Here are the healthcare waste management concerns that we highlighted 30 years ago that, unfortunately, are still common in hospitals and healthcare facilities today: The absence of a safe-disposal design in sharps containers exposes patients and clinical workers to sharps exposure risks.
Medical waste trolleys and carts are pushed from the loading dock into clinical areas, following contaminants through high-focus infection control zones.
Reusable medical waste bins and trolleys can remain uncleaned for sometimes years at a time, leaving permanent coloring from blood and fluid spills.
Wall enclosures for sharps Containers that are seldom cleaned and frequently have a build-up of mis-disposed sharps, filth, and grime behind them, as well as loose sharps within the cabinets that represent a risk to clinical or EVS workers
Small open-top "kick-bucket" medical waste bins beside patient beds, prone to curtain overhang cross-contamination
Full-touch medical waste containers without a hands-free mechanism to act as a physical barrier to contamination risk.
Disposable hazardous waste containers are cleaned off after use and reused as "clean" containers in hospitals without sufficient decontamination methods and processes.
Cardboard boxes and red bags. being used to contain medical waste with manual assembly and hand-tying, exposing healthcare personnel to puncture, spillage, and cross-contamination risk.
Reusable chemotherapeutic and hospital waste containers with porous surfaces that do not undergo a comprehensive disinfection or microbial kill robotic washing process
Poor segregation standards expose clinical and downstream staff to high-risk wastes that are mistakenly disposed of in general garbage or red bags.
None of the aforementioned exemplify modern cleanliness and sanitation, particularly in our premier medical institutes. Where patients are housed and treated, infection control and attention to every microbiological aspect are essential! Our generation is more aware than previous generations of the dangers associated with inadequate hygiene and disease transmission vulnerabilities. We must take more serious measures to improve safety and infection control in patient-care institutions at all levels; doing so will save lives.
A Hospital Waste Management Model That Begins With Infection Control
Trihaz Solutions’ approach to hospital waste management not only prioritizes safety, infection control, and risk management but also demonstrates a dedication to service and clinical outcomes that extends far beyond the delivery of hospital waste bins to a hospital dock. Here's an example of how Trihaz has established a new standard in medical waste management:
Containers built with high gloss, non-porous surfaces that can and are easily cleaned.
Containers are supplied as a single sealed unit (no nesting), reducing moisture residue that allows microbiological growth.
Once full, each container undergoes a robotic cleaning process that achieves a 106-log bacterial kill in decontamination and sanitization.
Purpose-designed carts and floor stands allow for hands-free trash disposal without surface contact or human manipulation.
No cabinets on the walls! Our sharps and pharmaceutical waste containers are intended as separate components, with no residual confinement to trap dirt, dust, or germs.
Medical waste containers have been found to have 13 times less microbial contamination than their counterparts.
Sharps, medical trash, pharmaceutical, and chemotherapy waste containers are designed to never touch the ground when full. Specialized carts, mounts, and transporter units keep containers suspended to minimize cross-contamination.
Not only has our methodology been tried and proven, but so have our goods and methodologies, which have been scientifically confirmed in peer-reviewed research. We are passionate about making healthcare safer; please join us in safeguarding healthcare workers by using an infection-control-based approach to hospital waste management. 
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