Trash Chute Door5901459
Wow… What a scary website to see. Trash bags caught in the trash chute in such a way that it prevents the chute doors from automatically closing. And make no error about it, the trash chute doors are needed to close and latch, automatically.
Section 19.five.4.3 of the 2000 edition of the Life Safety Code demands trash chutes to discharge into trash collection rooms and the trash collection rooms cannot be utilized for any other objective. So, that means you can't store products that are not associated to the trash chute in the room, such as floor scrubber machines.
The scene in the image is generally brought on by the failure to empty the cart in time, prior to it fills up to the point where the bags of trash stop the chute doors from closing. In today’s economy, it is not all that uncommon to learn that staff reductions in the Environmental Services (housekeeping) department stop adequate staffing to eliminate the trash bags. While this might be a legitimate purpose, somebody at this hospital forgot the significance of removing the trash on a normal basis. They require to make this a priority.
From a life security point of view, it would be much better to eliminate the cart and allow the bags to fall onto the floor. This way it would take a lot more bags of trash to pile up prior to it would obstruct the chute door from closing. I’m not sure what the hospital’s Infection Manage expert would say about that, but I would recommend it as an option if the ES division can't empty the cart frequently sufficient.
If you determine to permit the bags of trash to accumulate on the floor in the trash chute discharge space, I suggest you conduct a danger assessment to analyze the risks to patient security. This way, you can demonstrate to a surveyor that the dangers were considered if the surveyor has a issue with bags o’ trash scattered on the floor.
