Surely everyone knows that mercury allocates poisonous pairs that can harm the human body. But harm is becoming more if a person contacts mercury for a long time. Therefore, if you accidentally crashed a mercury thermometer in the apartment, it is necessary to urgently take measures to eliminate the consequences.
Preparatory work
First of all, if the trouble happened, you need to evacuate from the room with a broken thermometer of people and animals. After that, close all the doors, if the street is colder than indoors, you can open the window. Before leaving the room before evacuation, put a rag, pre-wetting it in aqueous solution of manganese. It is necessary in order not to make mercury particles from the room on the shoes.
Own security
You can only defend yourself to the cleaning of mercury. For this, wearing rubber gloves and booties on your feet. In the absence of a boot, you can use polyethylene packages. On the face, make a gauze bandage, which is pre-mixed in aqueous solution of manganese.
Cleaning mercury
After protecting itself, it is necessary without delay to start the rotuche collection. To do this, you will need:
- any sealed container with a lid,
- a solution of manganese
- paper,
- wool or cotton sticks,
- syringe or medical pear.
Fill in the tank aqueous solution of manganese. Collect the fragments of the broken thermometer there. Put the paper on the floor next to mercury drops and roll rotted on paper. Then mercury Send into a container with a solution. It is necessary to carry out this operation from the corners of the room, gradually moving to the center. In hard-to-reach places to get mercury Take advantage of a syringe or medical pear.
After collecting mercury, close the container tightly and put somewhere where it is cool.
Disinfection
After cleaning the mercury itself, the micro drops of this poisonous metal can still remain indoors. In order to remove it, finally need to disinfect the room. This is all the same solution of manganese, alternating it with soapy. But remember that one processing is not enough. It is necessary to repeat disinfection 3 times a day for 5-7 days.
Of course, it is necessary to disinfect yourself. To do this, rinse the oral cavity with a solution of manganese, clean your teeth well and accept activated coal.
It is forbidden
In no case, do not try to drip mercury by a broom, otherwise you will simply break it all over the room. Do not throw away the assembled mercury and fragments of the thermometer in the garbage or toilet. If mercury fell on clothes, then such clothes should be thrown away. Do not try to remove mercury drops with a vacuum cleaner.
Disposal mercury
After all the procedures, the procedures should be made to the Ministry of Emergency Situations or San Epidem Design for the specialists to utilize the remnants of mercury.
At first glance, there is nothing complicated. But if you are not sure, it is better to call the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
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