User's Manual

Cleaning and Sterilization
11-8 Maintenance, Cleaning & Troubleshooting
Equipment and
Materials
WarningWarning
EO is highly explosive, toxic, and a potential occupational carcinogenic and
reproductive hazard. Handle it with extreme care, following U.S.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards for EO
(29 CFR 1910.1047)
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. Personnel exposure and/or room air must be
monitored per OSHA standards.
Vent sterilizer gas outdoors or to a suitable, evacuated container for
reprocessing, depending upon state, provincial, or country environmental
regulations. Do not vent sterilant indoors.
Vent aerator exhaust only to the outdoors.
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See “References” on page 11-11.
Use the following equipment and material to process the transceiver:
1. Ethylene Oxide gas (Allied Signal Oxyfume-2002™ or equivalent).
2. Gas sterilizer manufactured by American Sterilizer Company or other
appropriate manufacturer.
EO
Sterilization
The following generic procedure can be used to supplement the sterilizer
manufacturer’s instructions, although the processing times, temperatures, and
EO concentrations must be equivalent to those given in this procedure in order
to achieve a sterility level of 10E-6.
Step Action
1 Remove any obvious contamination from the equipment to be
processed using approved cleaners.
2 Individually package each transceiver in standard central supply
room (CSR) wrapping material secured with EO color-change indi-
cator tape.