We offer a secure shredding service for your confidential documents, this ensures that your confidential information is strictly contained and controlled during the process of collection to handling to shredding.

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Packco handling have partnered with a manufacturer to create a bespoke design for an aesthetically pleasing and effective way to store any of your bins on your premises.

They are fit with a door for easy insertion and removal of the bins for filling and emptying.

They are bolted into the ground to ensure that they’re secure in all weather conditions.

Once the order is processed, they will be commissioned and we will have the parts transported to your site and members of our team will come out and install them for you in whatever location you would like them, or if you’re unsure, will provide you with advice on where to install them.

Under the Prevention of Damage by Pests Act 1949, the owners and/or occupiers need to take action to keep land free from rats and mice.

Packco Handling will have a professional technician come in and perform a site inspection to identify the species of your pest problem, as well as finding the cause and to the extent at which your problem is.

Using their pest control training and certification, they can use effective controlled substances, compliant with pesticide regulations to safely eliminate your pest problem without causing damage to your property.

They will also give you advice regarding how to not have a reoccurrence of the same problem on your premises in the future.

We will provide you with the necessary paperwork as proof that your pest problem was dealt with and eradicated.

Your business may have obsolete stock in which you need to get rid of, this can be down to a variety of reasons.

We securely collect, transport and dispose of this stock for you, with the final destination as wherever you would require it to be.

For example, if you would like these products to be destroyed, we offer a method of secure destruction by shredding, where one of us from Packco Handling will be present to spectate your products being destroyed, whilst recording the process for videographic evidence to give you that peace of mind that it has indeed been securely destroyed. We will also provide you with a Waste Transfer note and a certificate of secure destruction, outlining the quantity and weight of the products that you ordered to be destroyed. So that you in turn have the legal proof that you have securely disposed of your obsolete stock.

Whether you are moving to a new site, or simply need to redevelop or remodel your site, we can help you complete this. Within our site clearance service, we provide various solutions that will fit your criteria, such as

• Decommissioning
• Dismantling
• Demolition
• Removal
• Transportation
• Industrial cleaning
• Asbestos removal

Having Packco Handling responsible for your site clearance will ensure that your plan will be carried out efficiently and completed to suit deadlines and dates.

At Packco Handling we offer an industrial cleaning service, sending in experienced teams to carry out safe cleaning and decontamination so that the affected area will become sterile. Laboratory sampling will validate the process of sterilisation in order to reach full customer satisfaction.

The industrial cleaning and decontamination services in which we can provide for you include;

• Tank and Vessel Cleaning
• Specialist floor cleaning
• Machine and assembly lines cleaning
• High level cleans
• External cleaning
• Safe Transportation and disposal of Toxic and Corrosive Chemical waste
• We can cover a range of different sectors and premises such as laboratories, medical and food premises.

Our Industrial cleaning and decontamination services are fully health and safety compliant, with a risk assessment being carried out before the operation starts and we will provide you with COSHH datasheets.

If you require a service that fits under this bracket, please don’t hesitate to contact us as we will have a specialist make a site visit to analyse what specifically needs carrying out and then the processes can be carried out.

Chemical waste is any product of waste that contains or was in contact with chemicals. Chemical waste can be in the form of a solid, a liquid or a gas. Chemical waste can pose a threat to the health of humans and/or the environment and need to be handled via a secure method.

Chemical waste is considered hazardous if it is

• Toxic
• Flammable
• Corrosive
• Highly reactive

Safe storage, collection and disposal of chemicals and acids is essential, whether you are a business that regularly produces chemical waste or a one off, the same regulations have to be complied.

It is important that as a business, you know how to manage, store and dispose of chemical waste so that you are able you comply with legislation such as the Environmental Protection Act of 1990 and the Health and Safety at Work Act of 1974 as failing to do so can result in serious repercussions.

You need to comply with the governmental regulations for disposing of chemical waste, which includes COSHH (Control Of Substances Hazardous to Health)

       It is imperative that you, as a business owner ensures that your business is storing chemical waste appropriately to protect yourself and anybody on your premises from potential harm to health. Packco handling can help you to establish a chemical waste management plan to provide you with clarity regarding how you should be storing and disposing of chemical waste in line with the governmental regulations.

Chemical waste has to be:

• Handled with care before, after and during use. Anyone that comes into contact with the waste must wear PPE and adhere to the health and safety guidelines.
• Stored in a designated spot on your premises, in a locked and hidden away place that only people that are trained and are wearing the appropriate health and safety attire can access.
• Separate from any other specifications of Hazardous waste, stored in specific chemical waste-safe bins and containers, such as Chemical waste drums, containers or COSHH bins, which we can provide for you.

A vast range of industries and business sectors all produce chemical waste, get in touch with Packco Handling today for new solutions to your chemical waste needs.

According to the HSE, Asbestos still kills around 5000 workers each year through Mesothelioma, Asbestosis and Lung Cancer, and can be present in any building built or refurbished before the year 2000.

This is why Asbestos needs to be dealt with correctly for the safety of people around.
If you suspect that your premises has asbestos, stop working and stay away, Packco Handling will have a specialist visit and carry out a risk assessment to determine whether a licensed contractor is needed to remove asbestos or not, which we can also organise.

Following the legal guidelines regarding the disposal of asbestos ensures protection of the health and safety of employees and any site visitors on your premises.

• As per the Environmental Protection Act 1990, a sanitary bin must be present in every workplace’s bathroom so that any users have a hygienic method of disposing of their sanitary waste.
• Under the ‘Duty of Care act’ there is a legal requirement for your business to manage sanitary waste to disposal. Employees cannot be responsible for disposing of this waste themselves. Here at Packco Handling we can help your business fulfil your duty of care required with sanitary waste.
• What can be put in Sanitary bins?
• Feminine hygiene products.
• Nappies
• Solid or liquid human waste

If you hold or produce clinical waste, you have a legal duty of care that it safely managed. Failing to do so can leave you open to serious penalties, therefore it is imperative that you have the correct systems in place for the disposal of all different types of clinical waste.

We can supply you with specific bins and bags which differ depending on the type of clinical waste in which you hold and produce. Different coloured bins and bags illustrate the specific type of waste that can be discarded into that bin.

Yellow – Infectious clinical waste – Bodily fluids, materials contaminated with bodily fluids and medicines.

Orange – Infectious clinical waste – Used PPE, Plasters, bandages and dressings.

Red – Non-infectious Anatomical waste – Human and Animal Body parts and Organs.

Yellow and Black Tiger stripe – Non-Infectious, offensive waste produced from human and animal hygiene – Nappies, and incontinence waste.

Blue – Medicinal non-hazardous waste – Denatured drug, unused non-cytostatic or cytostatic medicines.

Purple – Cytotoxic and Cytostatic waste – Materials contaminated with cytotoxic and cytostatic drugs.

White – Dental waste: Amalgam and Gypsum – Teeth with fillings, unused amalgam, packaging and capsules containing Amalgam residue.

Packco Handling provides safe and secure clinical waste disposal solutions for what type of clinical waste in which you need dealing with.