Edinburgh Clinical Research Facility
What was required:
A shielded castle comprising:
- A labyrinth entrance to prevent having to lift containers over the walls
- Stainless steel 316 construction
- PET appropriate shielding
A large sharps bin enclosure comprising:
- PET appropriate shielding
- A sliding lid
- Stainless steel construction
- A locating spacer for the Daniels 7ltr bin used
- Shielded needle aperture cover
The shielded castle was engineered to provide the shielding required being fully encased in stainless steel. Encasing the castle gives a far superior surface finish for infection control over using chevron lead bricks. An additional benefit of the encapsulation is the chance of a lead brick falling from the castle walls potentially onto a persons foot has been eliminated. The labyrinth entrance was incorporated to allow shielded containers, each weighing 8 kg, to be put into the castle preventing the need for lifting over the castle walls. Both these aspects help to provide a safer working area for radiation safety, manual handling and infection control.
The sharps enclosure designed was oversized for the sharps bin used. The facility currently uses a Daniels 5ltr bin however CF240 has been designed to allow for different (even larger) sharps bin to be installed without the need to change the enclosure. For general use the small needle cover can be used for inserting sharps. This retains the shielding around the sharps bin when in use helping towards ALARP. To change the sharps bin the shielded lid can be slid away on the full extension sliders allowing full access to the sharps bin.
Drawing sets for CF201 and CF240 were produced with the key features being verified by the customer. The time between first enquiry and installation was 9 weeks.
