Haigh
Company Bio
In many US hospitals, human-waste disposal relies on single-use plastic bedpans that must be manually emptied into hoppers or toilets before disposal. While plastic single-use products remove the risk of cross-patient reuse, they introduce clinical and safety challenges. Manual emptying increases staff exposure to human waste, aerosols, splashing, and sharps contamination, while inconsistent practices create avoidable infection-control risk. High volumes of plastic waste add cost, storage pressure, and environmental burden.
These workflows depend on staff compliance, time, and availability. When hopper rooms are poorly designed, unavailable, or congested, unsafe shortcuts become normalised. Plastic systems solve reuse risk but do not remove handling risk. Hospitals need a waste-disposal approach that eliminates manual emptying, reduces staff exposure, and improves workflow reliability. Without this, facilities rely on processes that compromise safety and infection-prevention outcomes.
