Waste Handling, Decontamination/Disinfection, and Disposal
D. Contaminated Waste
3. Containers for glass patient blood sample tubes
Containers holding potentially infectious glass vacutainer tubes from HIV patient blood samples (see Section 11) must stay inside the biosafety cabinets so as not to expose any BSL-3 facility user to the potentially infectious material it contains. When they are filled, the current user must close the lid tightly before removing the container from the biosafety cabinet. Then place it into the zone set aside for the purpose of disposal by the BSL-3 Laboratory Manager (currently, this is the area directly in front of the BSL-3 facility autoclave).
The Wistar Institute
Biosaftey Level 3 Laboratory Code of Practice