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ICS 13.030.30; 13.030.40  
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Health care wastes management 
commodities  
 
Part 4 : 
 
Health care wa stes bins — Specification  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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The following organizations were represented on the National Workshop Agreement Meeting:  
 
City Council of Nairobi  
Coast Provincial General Hospital  
Nursing Council of Kenya  
Kenya Medical Supplies Agency  
Kenyatta National Hospital  
Ministry of Medical Services  
Kenya Expanded Progrmme of Immunization  
Reprentative, Rural Health Facilities  
Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation  
Government Chemist 's Department  
Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital  
Path-Kenya  
Christian H ealth Association of Kenya  
Office of the Chief Public Health Officer — Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation  
Office of the Chief Nursing Officer — Ministry of Medical Services  
Office of the Director of Medical Services — Ministry of Medical Services  
Kenya Medical Scientific Technical Officers Ass ociation  
Kenya Medical Research Institute  
Kenya bureau of Standards  — Secretariat  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Health care wastes management commodities  
 
Part 4:  
 
Health care wast es bins — Specification  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Foreword  
 
This Kenya National Workshop Agreement Standard has been prepared by the National Workshop 
Agreement meeting under the supervision of the Standards Projects Committee , and it is in accordance with 
the procedures of Kenya Bureau of Standards.  
 
During the preparation of this standard, t he following documents were referred to:  
 
KS 1567: 1999: Rotationally molded Polyethylene water storage tanks - Specification  
 
KS ISO 1209:2007: Rigid cellular plastic – Determination of flexural properties – Part 1: Basic 
bending test.  
 
The assistance obt ained from these sources is hereby acknowledged  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
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Health care wastes management commodities  
 
Part 4:  
 
Bins for health care wastes  — Specification  
 
 
 
1 Scope  
 
This Part  4 of this Kenya National Workshop Agreement specifies the requirements and test methods for the 
Bins for health care waste s. 
 
2 Definitions  
 
For the purposes of this Workshop Agreement , the folowing definitions shall apply : 
 
2.1 
health care waste commodity  
these are devices used to safegurd a person against hazards or injury during handling,  segregga tion, 
storing,  transportation and disposal of the wastes that are produced in the day to day provision of health 
care.  
 
2.2 
bins for health care wastes  
these are temporary storage containers of health care wastes ,coloured in accordance with the class of 
wastes to be kept in them,while  awaiting removal and final disposal of the contents.  
 
3 Requirements  
 
3.1 Construction  
 
3.1.1  The bins rigidity , deformation  resistan ce, tensile strength shall be in accordance to Table 1 . 
 
Table 1 — Physico -chemical properties of bins  
 
Sl no Physico -chemical property  Requirement  Test method  
i) Resistance to deformation, max. (mm)  2 % of original 
circumference  KS 1567  
ii) Gross capacity test No leakage  Visual  
iii) Flexural strength , min. (N/mm2) 400 KS ISO 1209 Parts 
1 and 2a 
iv) Tensile strength test , min. (N/mm2). 
 12 N/mm2 
 KS 1567b 
a Rigid cellular plastics -— Determination of flexural properties -— Part 1: Basic bending test , Part 2: 
Determination of flexural strength and apparent flexural modulus of elasticity . 
b  Rotational moulded polyethylene water storage tanks — Specification.  
 
 
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2  © KEBS 201 8 — All rights reserved  3.1.2  The design of the bin shall be tapered from bottom to top  to allow easy evacuation of the contents.  
The tapering shall such that they easily nest in each other for ease of cleaning.  
 
3.1.3  .Bins shall be made of durable plastic material or poly -ethene, or any other suitable material.  
 
3.1.4  Bins shall be stable when standing with a smooth inner side for easy cleaning  
 
3.1.5  Bins shall have handles of the same materials  at the sides with tight fitting lids that are easy to open  
 
3.1.6  Bins shall be fitted with a pedal to operate the opening and closing mechanism of the lid . The pedals 
shall be of suitable material that can easily be disinfected.  
 
3.1.7  Bins shall be made and categorized in three colours based on the classification of waste:  
 
a) Black bins  for general waste whereby printing shall be in white and legible to read as non- 
infectious waste.  
 
b) Yellow bins  shall be for infectious waste whereby the printing shall be in white and legible to read as  
infectious waste  with a universal biohazard symbol on the sides  
 
c)  Red bins  shall be for highly infectious  waste whereby the printing shall be in white to read  Highly 
infectious  waste with a universal biohazard symbol on the sides (see Figure 1).  
 
 
 
 
 
 
Figu re 1 —  Biohazard symbol  
 
 
NOTE  There should always be separate Bins for food remains which shall be of different colors apart from Black, 
Yellow and Red  
 
3.2 Capacity  
 
The bin capacity shall be from 5 L to 50 L in multiples of five liters.  Bins from 5  L to 35 L shall be pedalled, 
while those of capacity greater  than 35  L shall be lid flipped in accordance to Figure 2.  
 
 
 
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INTERNAL HEIGHT
OVERALL HEIGHTOUTER  DIA.
INNER  DIA.
SHAFT
ROD
MOVING
PIVOT
AXEL
PINRIBBED
PEDAL
FRAME
TYPICAL SECTIONAL ELEVATIONFIXED
PIVOT
PEDAL 
 
 
 
Figure 2a) — Schematic diagram of bins for healthcare waste  
 
 
 
 
 
 
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OUTER DIA.
INNER  DIA.
BOTTOM PLANPEDAL
AXEL
PINRIBBED
PEDAL
FRAME
 
 
 
Figure 2b) — The bottom plan of the bin  
 
 
3.3  Wall thickness and nesting angle  
 
The minimum  wall thickness shall be 3  mm ± 0.2 mm  and nesting angles shall be 5 °C.  
 
4 Sampling  
 
4.1 Lot 
 
All the health care waste bins of same raw material, same type; size and produced under relatively uniform 
conditions of manufacture shall constitute a Lot.  
 
4.2  Sample size shall be 1 % of the lot size.  
 
4.3 These health care waste bins shall be selected at random from the lot. In order to ensure 
randomness of selection tables of random numbers shall be used.  
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Table 1 — Scale of sampling and criteria for conformity for tanks  
 
Lot s ize Sample size  Acceptance 
number  
Up to 50  5 0 Failure  
100 10 0 Failure  
200 20 0 Failure  
500 50 0 Failure  
501 and above  100 1 Failure  
 
 
5 Packaging  and Labe lling 
 
5.1 Packaging  
 
Peddled b ins shall be packaged in cartons individually . The lid flipped shall be packed nested in 5 or 10 
pieces with the individual lids packed separately.  
 
5.2 Marking  
 
5.2.1  All the plastic water storage tanks shall be marked with the following information:  
 
i) manufacturer's name and address ; 
 
ii) net capacity in litres, and gallons, if possible;  
 
iii) lot number and batch number;  
 
iv)  country of origin.  
 
5.2.2  The marking shall be carried out either by painting or by moulding, or by sticking the identification 
marks on external surface of the water tank.