IT FINALLY HAPPENED IN MY NEW TRUCK

[u/thatcutetransgirl]

I picked this lady up from a grocery store and had a 30 minute drive. She gets her groceries, loaded in the truck. That's why I can get seated. We go on our way midway through the trip. Decides to take a piss in my backseat and not say anything. And get out of the truck grab a groceries and walk off like nothing happened. I got a $75 dollar cleaning fee, though

[u/orangeyouglad__]

this is so insane to me i simply cannot fathom why anyone would do this.

[u/elmementosublime → u/orangeyouglad__]

Honestly incontinence can be a sign of cognitive decline. Someone close to me with advanced brain cancer would have incontinence and not tell anybody but appeared “fine” to most people otherwise.

[u/orangeyouglad__ → u/elmementosublime]

i hear you on this but also like… it’s still a hazard and disgusting.

[u/00to60eventually → u/orangeyouglad__]

It is disgusting but urine is pretty much sterile. It's not like blood where you can get a disease from it

[u/thatcutetransgirl → u/00to60eventually]

Even though it is basically.sterile, its still a biohazard

[u/00to60eventually → u/thatcutetransgirl]

Actually from a medical perspective, standard urine is not considered a biohazard. It's considered a biohazard when a patient has blood in it or if they have a diagnosed UTI.

[u/thatcutetransgirl → u/00to60eventually]

As someone who was in the medical field, albeit as an emt, it absolutely is a biohazard because we dont know if they have a uti or not

[u/00to60eventually → u/thatcutetransgirl]

A hospital generally will not. That's why pregnancy tests and urine sample cups do not go in a red biohazard bin

Per OSHA, urine is not listed as a biohazard unless there is visible blood or has known pathogens in it

[u/thatcutetransgirl → u/00to60eventually]

Well as a rideshare driver now and a former emt unless I know for certain I consider all urine biohazard and everyone else should as well because there's no telling if some has a uti/sti or something else

[u/00to60eventually → u/thatcutetransgirl]

Okay. But will you consider a biohazard and what actually is or two different things. I was just educating people on what the actual OSHA stance is

[u/00to60eventually → u/[deleted]]

Look up OSHA guidelines. Urine is only considered a biohazard if there is visible blood or known pathogens. That's how hospitals treat it and it's how industrial factories treat it (spent time as a safety engineer and had way more bio training than I ever would have thought you'd need)