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Mercury Spillage Kit

Mercury is highly toxic if mishandled. Mercury is used in a variety of applications from dental amalgam to sphygmomanometers and thermometers. Accidental spillages can happen in a variety of places from dental practices to laboratories. To reduce the risk of mercury exposure, it's important to have a procedure in place, so your staff know what to do in the event of a spillage. A Mercury spillage kit is useful to have on hand as it contains everything you need to clean up the spillage safely.

We offer a mercury spillage kit with instructions to guide you through the process. Suitable for use in laboratories and to have on hand in your dental practice for amalgam spillages.

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Why do you need a mercury spillage kit?

 A mercury spillage kit is essential for mercury safety, and dealing with accidental spills. Mercury is unique as it is a liquid at room temperature but can quickly evaporate in the air, posing serious health risks if not properly managed. Mercury can also contaminate the environment if not safely collected and disposed of correctly.

 

What’s in a Mercury Spillage Kit?

Our easy-to-use mercury spillage kit is portable and packaged in a lightweight red corrugated card case, making it more visible in your practice.

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Mercury Spill Kit Contents:

  • Shatterproof waste containers - holds up to 250ml (4kg) of recovered mercury
  • Absorbent material (alloy wool) to remove mercury beads from surfaces
  • Additional cleaning-up tools such as aspiration syringes and amalgamating powders
  • Personal Protective Equipment such as aprons and gloves
  • Easy to follow, instructions in line with COSHH and British Dental methodologies

How to Use a Mercury Spillage Kit ?

 

  • 1.  Assess the situation in line with your procedures. Restrict and or evacuate the area as necessary until the spill can be cleaned up. 

  • 2. To help ventilate the area and disperse of the mercury vapours open doors and windows or use fans to increase air circulation

  • 3. Open the kit, put on the PPE, and follow the instructions making sure everything is present in the kit.

  • 4. On hard surface spills, use the scoop and syringe to collect as much of the mercury together and place it into the waste container.

  • 5. Tip a capful of calcium hydroxide and sulphur close to the centre of the spill and using the scoop mix these with the remaining mercury to form a pseudo-amalgam.

  • 6. Finally, using the scoop and brush transfer the waste into the waste container.

  • 7. Dispose of the waste container and any other waste into an amalgam sludge drum for final disposal.

  • 8. For after clean up care, follow your practice decontamination procedures.

How To Dispose of Mercury Spillage Kit?

Mercury vapour is colourless, odourless and tasteless. As a result, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) implemented a strict occupational exposure limit of 25 nanograms per metre cubed (µg/m3), spread over an eight-hour working period to reduce the risk of potential health hazards.

Initial Medical provides an industry-leading mercury spillage kit to ensure the safe management and disposal of mercury-based items, mitigating the level of occupational exposure to staff and patients.
Ensure you meet HSE guidelines and equip your personnel with the tools to handle mercury spills

 

Why is Mercury Dangerous?

Mercury vapour is colourless, odourless and tasteless. As a result, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) implemented a strict occupational exposure limit of 25 nanograms per metre cubed (µg/m3), spread over an eight-hour working period to reduce the risk of potential health hazards.

Initial Medical provides an industry-leading mercury spillage kit to ensure the safe management and disposal of mercury-based items, mitigating the level of occupational exposure to staff and patients.
Ensure you meet HSE guidelines and equip your personnel with the tools to handle mercury spills