Disinfectant Spray

 


Relevant Material: "The federal government continues to evaluate the transmissibility and severity of the COVID-19 virus.
What general precautions should be taken to protect waste and recycling worker safety?

General precautionary measures should include avoiding touching your eyes, nose and mouth with unwashed hands and washing your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds on a regular basis throughout the day. Use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer that contains at least 60 percent alcohol if soap and water are not available. In addition, wipe down surfaces with disinfectant, and sneeze or cough into your shoulder/arm or a tissue. It is also good to practice good housekeeping and minimize clutter where the virus could accumulate. There is some evidence that HEPA filters in room air cleaners might provide protection against the virus due to the size of the droplets in which the virus is carried. Buying such air cleaners for offices and control rooms may be advised.

OSHA also states that workers can use appropriate engineering and administrative controls, safe work practices and personal protective equipment (PPE) to prevent worker exposure.

Are there any special efforts that need to be made to disinfect surfaces from COVID-19?

The virus can easily be killed by detergents and disinfectants at regular temperatures used for washing. For a specific list of approved products, please refer to the Environmental Protection Agency’s list of registered antimicrobial products for use against Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the cause of COVID-19.

See these links:

List N: Disinfectants for Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Cleaning and Disinfection for Community Facilities

Guidance

Generally, management of waste and recycling that is suspected or known to contain or be contaminated with COVID-19 does not require special precautions beyond those already used to protect workers from the hazards they encounter during their routine job tasks in solid waste.

OSHA’s guidance on reducing risk to exposure

  • Promote frequent and thorough hand washing by providing workers, customers and worksite visitors with a place to wash their hands. If soap and running water are not immediately available, provide alcohol-based hand rubs containing at least 60 percent alcohol.
  • Encourage workers to stay home if they are sick.
  • Encourage respiratory etiquette, including covering coughs and sneezes.
  • Maintain regular housekeeping practices, including routine cleaning and disinfecting of surfaces, equipment and other elements in the work environment. When choosing cleaning chemicals, employers should consult information on EPA-approved disinfectant labels with claims against emerging viral pathogens. Products with EPA-approved emerging viral pathogens claims are expected to be effective against SARS-CoV-2 based on data for harder to kill viruses. Follow the manufacturer’s instructions for use of all cleaning and disinfection products (i.e., concentration, application method and contact time, PPE).

Municipal Waste

  • Workers and employers should manage municipal (i.e., household, business) solid waste with potential or known COVID-19 contamination like any other non-contaminated municipal waste.
  • Use typical engineering and administrative controls, safe work practices and PPE, such as puncture-resistant gloves and face and eye protection, to prevent worker exposure to the waste streams (or types of wastes) they manage, including any contaminants in the materials. Such measures can help protect workers from sharps and other items that can cause injuries or exposures to infectious materials.

Recycling

  • As with municipal waste, employers and workers in the recycling industry should continue to use typical engineering and administrative controls, safe work practices and PPE, such as puncture-resistant gloves and face and eye protection, to prevent worker exposure to the recyclable materials they manage, including any contaminants in the materials..." (COVID-19 Work Practices - National Waste & Recycling Association)
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Relevant Background: "Disinfectants are chemical agents designed to inactivate or destroy microorganisms on inert surfaces.[1] Disinfection does not necessarily kill all microorganisms, especially resistant bacterial spores; it is less effective than sterilization, which is an extreme physical or chemical process that kills all types of life.[1] Disinfectants are generally distinguished from other antimicrobial agents such as antibiotics, which destroy microorganisms within the body, and antiseptics, which destroy microorganisms on living tissue. Disinfectants are also different from biocides—the latter are intended to destroy all forms of life, not just microorganisms. Disinfectants work by destroying the cell wall of microbes or interfering with their metabolism. It is also a form of decontamination, and can be defined as the process whereby physical or chemical methods are used to reduce the amount of pathogenic microorganisms on a surface...Sanitizers are substances that simultaneously clean and disinfect.[4] Disinfectants kill more germs than sanitizers.[5] Disinfectants are frequently used in hospitals, dental surgeries, kitchens, and bathrooms to kill infectious organisms. Sanitizers are mild compared to disinfectants and are used majorly to clean things which are in human contact whereas disinfectants are concentrated and are used to clean surfaces like floors and building premises...Bacterial endospores are most resistant to disinfectants, but some fungi, viruses and bacteria also possess some resistance..." ("Disinfectant", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinfectant)
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