Workplace spill kits and body fluid clean-up kits announced by Clean Stream Technologies provide rapid response to blood-borne biohazards with the potential to spread disease within production and distribution plants already coping with Covid and flu.
The ZeoMed kits’ 100% natural mineral and ecologically safe ZeoLite aluminosilicate is a fast-acting natural absorbent of liquids and odours, including toxic and noxious odours. The inert and non-toxic absorbent is highly effective against the types of body fluid spills most typical in workplaces and public domains, including vomit, blood, faeces and urine, says Clean Stream Technologies General Manager, Scott Whittaker.
Applications of the quick-access ZeoMed kits include chemicals, cytotoxic hazards (associated with drugs that can be absorbed through skin contact), multiple biohazards, blood-borne pathogens (such as Human Immunodeficiency Virus HIV, hepatitis B virus (HBV), and hepatitis C virus (HCV)), as well as a broad range of infectious diseases and general clean-up applications.
“These latest ZeoMed spill kits have been designed to comply with Department of Health regulations in the handling of bloodborne pathogens in the workplace, says Mr Whittaker. They provide a hygienic handling and disposal system for spills commonly encountered in workplaces, public, and recreational areas, protecting both employees and visitors as part of a comprehensive risk management programme.”
“Spills are a hazard that employers want to clean up quickly. Quite apart from their unsightly appearance, or foul smell, they can cause a slip hazard on hard floors, or they can transmit bloodborne diseases,” he added.
“It is now a legal requirement for all employers to have controls in place to protect staff from potential infection from body spills. The legal requirements extend across a broad range of industry, commerce and public institutions, ranging from manufacturing and technology plants, laboratories, hospitality and entertainment venues, to retail, transport, distribution and medical and laboratory facilities,” says Mr Whittaker.
Customised kits can also be produced to suit the particular needs of individual sites, including manufacturing technology sites where employers are taking every step to protect their valued employees against disease and downtime. The main kits include:
- Body Fluid Spill Kit (designed for in-field use with portable first aid kits for quick access by employees)
- Biohazard Spill Kit (ideal for corporate, hospitality and public domains, located near first aid stations or cleaning trolleys)
- Cytotoxic Body Fluid Spill Kit (provides additional protection for clean-up of body fluids from patients who have been treated with cytotoxic drugs)
- Laboratory Spill Kit (configured for laboratory and similar applications where spills may be body fluid or other liquids, such as chemicals)
- Multipurpose Spill Kit (for venues such as supermarkets, variety stores, shopping centres, restaurants, hospitality and transport terminals where staff or the public may be at risk from biohazard and chemical hazards as well as slip and fall hazards)
- Sharps Kit (ideal for safely disposing of needles and syringes)
The kits – which include employer instructions – complement Clean Stream Technologies’ protection against airborne viruses, its EnviroKlenz Air System Plus which kills viruses multiple times smaller than the Covid-19 virus, such as SARS-COV-2.
“Like ZeoMed kits, EnviroKlenz Air System Plus is highly effective. In this case, it goes much further than standard mass-market purifiers by combining medically proven ultraviolet UVC germicidal irradiation with safe and effective earth mineral technology originally developed for the US military and still used today to destroy chemical warfare agents and toxic industrial chemicals,” says Mr Whittaker.
