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RE: Misuse, Susan Gawarecki's response
Zack,
If it was the toilet in my house, I could do it. But this is an
institutional toilet and I don't see a shut off valve. There must be a way
to do it, but I don't know if it is at the individual toilet or if there is
a valve somewhere that would shut off water to the whole hall or what.
Actually turning off the water is probably unnecessary. The real bugger in
a toilet [I know this from personal experience] is under the rim.
Apparently the flush swishes iodine laced urine up there and it dries. If
waxing or application of anything would help, it could be done there without
turning off the toilet. I have, on occasion tried a thing or two. I tried
a KI solution which had little or no effect.
One of my problems is that we do this pretty infrequently. Two or three
times a year, although in the last 6 months we've done 4. Remembering all
the little tricks is a problem and also preparing to try something new like
the "waxing" of a toilet usually gets put off then we get a patient and it's
easier to do it the old way....
BTW a trick I picked up on Radsafe I think that works well is Draino in the
sink. Iodine sticks to pipe crud. Put some Draino in while you are
prepping the room and then flush it out. Then when you are cleaning the
room apply it a couple or three times while you are deconing and surveying
and it greatly reduces the radiation coming from the trap.
Regards to all and thanks for all the helpful suggestions.
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: Zack Clayton [mailto:zack.clayton@epa.state.oh.us]
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 12:04 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: RE: Misuse, Susan Gawarecki's response
Zack Clayton
Ohio EPA - DERR
email: zack.clayton@epa.state.oh.us
voice: 614-644-3066
fax: 614-460-8249
>>> "Vernig, Peter G." <Peter.Vernig@med.va.gov> 03/03/00 10:10AM >>>
>Yah sure me and my staff do room decon. [Run a one man shop here] I
always
>try to have housekeeping wax the floor prior to a patient. I don't use
>razor blades, any contamination usually comes up pretty easily from a
>freshly waxed floor. Now if we could just wax the toilet and sink.<<<<
Peter, thinking outside of the norm here - Is there any reason they
*couldn't* turn off the water to the toilet and wax the toilet and sink? I
know that's not the way those items are usually maintained, but having done
janitor work long ago as a summer job, I can't think of any reason
preventing it. Other than normal custom of course.
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