Making new raised bed

As I had some spare space in my allotment I decided to make a new raised bed.I decided to empty one of my compost bins into it.It only took half of the contents.But when I was tidying up around the bin I noticed a rat coming out of the bin.If there has been a rat(S) in the bin is it safe to use that compost or should I dispose of it.

 

I wouldn't worry about it, I suspect most compost heaps get Rats as visitors, but worth wearing gloves when working the compost (weeding etc.) for a while until any pathogens (if there are any ...) have died off.

By the time any crops are harvested the risk will have gone.

But ... I never put on the compost heap anything that carnivore animals have excrete ... Dog Poo for example. That is likely to carry pathogens that might transfer to crops. No such worry for ornamental beds, but of course not very nice to come across that when weeding ... so worth keeping that sort of stuff "somewhere else".

And Holly leaves. hate coming across them when weeding. So they, and anything prickly, never go into Compost Bin, and my Holly Hedges are planted nowhere near where I have flower beds