Safe, Compliant UK Healthcare Waste Disposal Solutions
Sharpsmart offers a comprehensive range of healthcare waste disposal solutions tailored to facilities of all sizes. Designed with safety as a priority, our solutions have been clinically proven to enhance the management of healthcare waste and significantly reduce risk of injury, particularly those associated with handling hazardous materials.
Healthcare Waste Disposal
The Smarter, Reusable Way to Safely Manage Healthcare Waste
Welcome to Sharpsmart, where safety, sustainability, and service excellence come together to provide industry-leading healthcare waste disposal solutions. Our clinically proven system reduces waste-related injuries and offers a sustainable alternative to single-use containers. Ready to enhance your facility’s compliance and environmental goals? Contact us today for a consultation.
Why Choose Sharpsmart for Healthcare Waste Disposal?
When it comes to the management of waste in healthcare settings, Sharpsmart sets the standard. Our comprehensive, proper waste management solutions combine safety, sustainability, and cost-efficiency to deliver the UK’s best waste healthcare management systems. Here’s why healthcare facilities choose us:
- Safety First: Our containers are designed with unique safety features, drastically reducing needlestick injuries and contamination risks.
- Sustainability: Reusable containers significantly reduce plastic waste volumes, lessening environmental impact and aligning with eco-friendly healthcare practices.
- Cost Efficiency: Customised collection schedules and larger container options lead to reduced disposal costs.
- Point-of-Use Disposal: Our containers are strategically placed at the point of care, minimising handling and reducing infection risks.
- Regulatory Compliance: Full compliance with UK regulations such as Health Technical Memorandum 07-01 (HTM 07-01) ensures safe, legal management of healthcare waste, including hazardous and non-hazardous waste streams.
How to Dispose of Healthcare Waste: The Sharpsmart Difference
Proper healthcare waste disposal is essential to maintaining a safe and compliant healthcare environment. Here’s how Sharpsmart leads the way in the safe management of healthcare waste:
Segregation and Classification of Waste: Waste classification and segregation are key. Use designated containers for sharps, pharmaceutical, and clinical waste.- Sharpsmart Containers: Our containers are designed for point-of-use disposal, minimising the need for handling and reducing risks of contamination.
- Regular Collection: Sharpsmart is licensed to collect and manage healthcare waste across the UK, ensuring timely and compliant disposal. Our expert compliance team manages all regulations, ensuring your facility remains in line with HTM 07-01 and Environmental Protection Act 1990 guidelines.
- Training for Staff: We provide comprehensive education for healthcare providers, ensuring they are knowledgeable about types of healthcare waste and how to handle them safely.
Specialty Waste Solutions
Sharpsmart also offers tailored solutions for a variety of specialty waste streams that require alternative treatment and compliance with specific UK regulations. We provide a total waste management service, ensuring safe disposal for even the most complex waste types.
- Total Waste Management: A comprehensive, all-in-one solution that manages every aspect of your facility’s waste, from collection to final disposal, while ensuring full regulatory compliance.
- Chemical Waste: Safe handling and disposal of hazardous chemical substances, following strict UK regulations for hazardous waste management.
- Controlled Substances: Secure disposal of controlled drugs and substances in compliance with the Misuse of Drugs Regulations and other UK legal requirements.
- Radioactive Waste: Disposal of low-level radioactive waste, often generated in medical and research settings, following Radioactive Substances Act guidelines to ensure safe treatment.
- Confidential Waste: Secure destruction of sensitive documents and materials, adhering to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and maintaining confidentiality through certified shredding and disposal services.
- WEEE Waste: Management of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), ensuring compliance with UK recycling laws and environmental sustainability goals.
- COVID-19 Waste Disposal: Safe handling and disposal of COVID-19-related healthcare waste, including PPE, testing kits, and other infectious materials, in accordance with UK government guidance for managing pandemic waste.
Changing the world one sharp at a time
Peer reviewed in some of the world’s leading medical journals, the Sharpsmart system has proven greater reduction in sharps injuries than any other sharps containment system in the world.
With over 5 years of research invested into its design and engineering, the Sharpsmart collector is manufactured to precise tolerances to ensure that all safety mechanisms are functional on each and every collector. Fitted with an engineered maximum sensitivity safety tray, users are protected in hands-free disposal of sharps and needles. The Sharpsmart is more than just a sharps container, it is an engineered safety device proven to dramatically reduce needlestick injury rates, minimise infection transfer, and substantially improve the risk profile of all organisations that generate and handle healthcare waste.
Let’s together make needlestick injuries a thing of the past
Recent studies conducted across the United Kingdom estimate 100,000 needlestick and other sharps related injuries are sustained by healthcare personnel in the UK annually. We are passionate about reducing this number. Learn how Sharpsmart can partner with you in reducing risk exposure and increasing sharps injury awareness in your facility:
Does your sharps container pass the candy test?
If a piece of candy fell into an open sharps container…
Could a child’s hand reach in to get it?
A sharps container with a no-hands access safety tray is CRUCIAL, especially when situated in a patient environment. The unique patented Sharpsmart tray achieves 100% hand-access restriction, even for tiny inquisitive hands!
Why Reusable Sharps containers are better for the environment
As healthcare facilities across the United Kingdom increasingly focus on reducing the environmental impact of their waste streams (and as environmental impact regulations increase), it is vital to understand the difference between disposing of sharps, cytotoxic and pharmaceutical waste in ‘reusable’ containers, and disposing of them in ‘disposable’ or ‘recyclable’ containers.
Washline and Collectors
Sharpsmart robotic washing technology achieves greater microbiological efficacy in container washing than any other system
How is this achieved?
- Sharpsmart sharps collectors eliminate up to 99% reduction in the manufacturing of containers.
- Significant reduction in Greenhouse Gas Emissions and landfill waste.
- Washing process recycles water to reduce ecological impact.
- Achieves high-level disinfection while avoiding the use of environmentally harmful chemicals.
“Willing to go the extra mile..”
Sharpsmart’s service is excellent; their staff have a strong knowledge of clinical waste management and are always willing to go the extra mile to assist in any operational issues on site.
Louise Wood, Estates Officer
Cumberland Infirmary
“Reduces our footprint…”
The reason why we chose to use the Sharpsmart sharps container was due to the sustainability issues of being able to recycle the actual sharps bin rather than incinerating them and causing more issues with carbon footprint.
June Ayre, Infection Control Matron
George Eliot Hospital
“Smooth Transition, reduced sharps injuries…”
Most people within the NHS will look back and wonder how we managed without Sharpsmart. The planning that went into ensuring that transition was smooth was well worth the effort, resulting in fewer staff needlestick exposures and sharps injuries.
Specialist in Infection Control
James Paget Hospital
“Such Nice People…”
Happy to recommend Sharpsmart. Good service, good products, genuinely nice people to do business with. Happy customer! We’re very glad we found Sharpsmart.
Lyn Harding, Practice Manager
One One Nine Dental
“Helps staff overcome any issues…”
“Guy has been amazing from the start, always willing to offer advice or put me in contact with other Sharpsmart employees or customers who I can turn to for advice if needed. He’s always willing to travel to the Trust in person and helps staff overcome any issues or concerns.”
Michael Brownjohn, Waste Manager
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
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