The document discusses spill management in a hospital setting. It aims to familiarize readers with regulatory standards, potential hazards of spills, and appropriate responses. Spills of body fluids, drugs, chemicals can occur at any time in a hospital due to equipment issues or human error, posing risks to staff, visitors, and susceptible patients. The document outlines different types of spills - biological, chemical, mercury - and provides guidelines for managing biological and mercury spills, including use of spill kits and proper cleaning procedures.

1. SPILL
MANAGEMENT
SURESH RN
SOMERIAN HEALTH
UAQ-FH

2. Objectives
• Become familiar with applicable regulatory
standards
• Demonstrate an understanding of potential
hazards and appropriate responses
• Spill kits to be ready for use.

3. Introduction
• In a hospital, hazardous substances such as body fluids,
drugs, cleaning fluids and other chemicals are in very close
proximity to hundreds of people each day. Thus in hospital
spillage of blood, body fluids or chemicals can occur at any
time due to broken or faulty equipment or human error. Any
such spill poses risk to the staff, visitors and patients who are
extremely susceptible to infection.

4. Spill Kit

5. First, ask yourself
1. Am I safe?
2. Who else may be at risk, and how can I let them know?
3. What does the Contingency Plan say that I should do?
4. What help and tools do I need?
5. (Later) What can be learned from this?

6. Types of Spills in Hospital Setting
• Biological Spill
• Chemical Spill
• Mercury Spill
According to the Size
Small Spill - Less than 10ml
Large Spill – More than 10ml

7. Biological Spill
(Blood and Body fluids)

8. Biological spill Management steps

10. Your institution
10%hypochlorite
10%hypochlorite
20-30 Min

16. Mercury Spill