Disinfection & SafetyQuestion 27 of 100
After you bandage the client's finger, your table has a cotton ball, a gauze square and a paper towel with blood on them. How do you dispose of them?
a.Drop them into the open wastebasket under the table with the rest of the day's trash.
b.Rinse the blood off in the sink and then throw them away.
c.Double-bag them and place them in a sealed bag or a closed, covered container kept for contaminated waste.
d.Soak them in disinfectant for ten minutes and reuse them on the same client.
Explanation
Single-use items with blood on them are contaminated waste: double-bag them and put them in a sealed bag or closed container, which is option C. An open trash can (A) lets contaminated cotton be touched by the next person who empties it. Rinsing blood into the salon sink (B) spreads it to a surface used for washing hands, and porous items like cotton and gauze can never be disinfected and reused (D).
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