{"id":1375,"date":"2022-03-06T17:27:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T21:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/ehs\/?page_id=1375"},"modified":"2026-07-28T11:26:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T15:26:39","slug":"biosafety-program-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/ehs\/biosafety-program-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharps Disposal Guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Sharps include needles, syringes with attached needles, scalpels, lancets, razor blades, and other objects capable of puncturing or cutting the skin. Proper handling and disposal of sharps are essential to prevent injuries and exposure to hazardous biological materials. Sharps contaminated with biological materials must be disposed of in approved sharps containers in accordance with the University&#8217;s biological waste procedures. Once sharps are ready for pick up please submit a work order through the physical plant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-top:max(60%,326px);height:0;width:100%\"><iframe title=\"Sharps_Infographic\" allow=\"clipboard-write; autoplay; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"position:absolute;border:none;width:100%;height:100%;left:0;right:0;top:0;bottom:0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?d=sharps_infographic&#038;hideIssuuLogo=true&#038;u=umes.edu\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharps include needles, syringes with attached needles, scalpels, lancets, razor blades, and other objects capable of puncturing or cutting the skin. Proper handling and disposal of sharps are essential to prevent injuries and exposure to hazardous biological materials. Sharps contaminated with biological materials must be disposed of in approved sharps containers in accordance with the&#8230;<span class=\"cpschool-read-more-link-holder\"><a class=\"btn btn-basic cpschool-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/ehs\/biosafety-program-2\/\">Read more <span class=\"sr-only\">Sharps Disposal Guidance<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-1375","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/ehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/ehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/ehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/ehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/ehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/ehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/ehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/ehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/folder?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}