Clinics and practices
Dermatology runs a high count of small procedures. Shave biopsies, punches, excisions and cosmetic injections each produce a blade or a needle, and a busy clinic gets through more sharps than its floor area suggests.
Tell us about your facility and the Mobile office will call you back.
You stay because the pickups happen, not because a contract says so.
Mail-back has no minimum purchase and no fuel surcharge either.
South Alabama, South Mississippi and the Florida Panhandle.
Prepaid return boxes to all 50 states, for offices that make very little.
What a derm clinic generates
Count the procedures, not the patients. One clinic afternoon can include a dozen biopsies, several cryotherapy treatments and a handful of cosmetic injections, each leaving a blade, a punch or a needle behind.
The practical answer is a container in every procedure room rather than one in the corridor, and an interval that clears them before Friday. Both are cheap; a sharps injury is not.
What applies to you
Nothing exotic applies here, but the volume of sharps makes the ordinary rules bite harder.
OSHA 29 CFR 1910.1030: written exposure control plan, annual review, training for every exposed employee.
Containers as close as practical to the point of use. In a clinic with six procedure rooms, that means six containers.
Overfilled containers are the most common finding in a small-practice inspection and the easiest one to avoid.
A manifest and proof of destruction on pickup, or an electronic certificate on mail-back.
A summary for orientation, not legal advice. Check the current rule with the agency, or call the office in Mobile, AL.
Two ways to dispose
It comes down to how much you make. Steady volume suits a truck on a schedule. An office that fills a few containers a month can skip the truck and mail them back.
For clinics, practices and facilities with steady volume
For small quantity generators, 0 to 50 lbs a month
Your account
Tell us how many rooms run procedures and roughly how many a week. That sets the plan.
Get a quote for your officeNot one in the corridor. The standard asks for point of use, and so does common sense.
Under 50 lbs a month, prepaid systems from 1 quart to 28 gallons.
Routine or flexible collection with containers and bags supplied.
Bloodborne Pathogens and HIPAA with instant certificates.
Questions
Something we did not cover? The office that serves you can answer it.
Mobile, AL(251) 300-6143One in each room where procedures happen, as close as practical to the point of use. Corridor containers invite carrying a used blade across a room.
If you generate 0 to 50 lbs a month, yes. Above that, scheduled pickup is usually simpler and cheaper.
Yes. Pharmaceutical waste disposal, including EPA hazardous pharmaceutical waste, is one of our services.
A waste manifest and proof of legal destruction on pickup, or email tracking and an electronic certificate of disposal on mail-back.
No long-term contract and no hidden fees.
Other facilities
Services
Medical waste disposal
Scheduled pickup of regulated medical waste and sharps. We bring the containers and bags, collect on your schedule and hand you the manifest.
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Bio-hazard waste disposal
Anything solid or liquid that carries an infectious risk: needles, scalpels, tubing, catheters, blood-soaked linens. Handled under Alabama and Florida rules.
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Pharmaceutical waste disposal
Expired and unused drugs, from characterization and inventory to containers, transport and disposal, including EPA hazardous pharmaceutical waste.
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Mail-back program
For offices that make 0 to 50 lbs of waste a month. Fill the container, seal the prepaid box, ship it. Systems from 1 quart to 28 gallons.
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Local pickup runs from our Mobile, AL office, and mail-back ships to all 50 states. Compare all services.
Tell us what you generate and where you are. The Mobile office comes back with a quote, and there is no contract to sign.
