We use red sharps containers as well. I'm not sure if it's a new CAP requirement but about a year or so ago, our head pathologist was on this confidentiality kick. He wanted the slides ground up into dust. The company he found wanted the slides in the sharps containers. *shrug* whatever!
Cheryl Ann Powell B.S., HTL(ASCP)
Botsford General Hospital
Farmington Hills, MI USA
>From: "Horn, Hazel V"
>To: "'Jones, Samuel'" , Histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
>Subject: RE: Glass Disposal
>Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 09:19:09 -0500
>
>We quit using the cardboard boxes as well. We use large red sharps
>containers now.
>Hazel
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jones, Samuel [SMTP:Samuel.Jones2@med.va.gov]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 8:52 AM
> > To: Histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
> > Subject: Glass Disposal
> >
> > Does anyone have a written procedure for glass disposal? We were
> > previously
> > using glass disposal boxes labeled as such. We have been currently told
> > that the cardboard boxes are not acceptable. This is a new CAP
> > requirement.
> >
> > Samuel E. Jones, MS, HT(ASCP)HTL, QHIC
> > Supervisor Anatomic Pathology
> > VA North Texas Health Care System
> > 4500 South Lancaster Road / 113
> > Dallas, Texas 75216
> > Office: 214-857-0659
> > Fax: 214-302-1457
> > E-mail: samuel.jones2@med.va.gov
> >
> >