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Managing Healthcare Waste for Worker Safety

Learn about the risks of waste transmission in healthcare settings, effective waste management strategies, and the importance of proper waste treatment and disposal to protect healthcare workers.

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Managing Healthcare Waste for Worker Safety

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    3. The only documented risk of transmission of infections from waste to healthcare workers is through sharps There is however a potential for transmission of several microbial infections due to dumping of untreated wastes by healthcare facilities. Mixing of a small quantity of infectious waste with municipal garbage converts the entire waste to infectious Segregation of wastes at source followed by appropriate treatment is the key to the success of a waste management strategy

    5. The Social Issue: Ragpickers

    6. The TMH Pathway Closure of the incinerator Awareness programs for all the staff Refashioning the storage area Street play Posters

    7. Incinerator circa 1994

    10. Waste Audit

    14. Infection Awareness Week

    17. Evaluation of Non Burn Technologies for Medical Waste Treatment

    18. 1. Demonstrated Performance

    19. 2. Technical & Performance Criteria

    20. 3. Vendor Qualifications

    21. 4. Environmental & Permitting Issues

    22. 5. Occupational Health & Safety Issues

    23. 6. Facility: & Infrastructural Requirements

    24. 7. Economics

    26. Selection of Technology and Implementation is not the setting sun Evaluation is a continuous process

    29. TMH Waste Management

    30. Hazardous Waste

    31. Environment News

    39. E-waste How green is your Apple? Aug 25th 2006 From The Economist print edition

    40. God proposes, man disposes

    41. LIST OF WASTE SUBSTANCES WITH CONCENTRATION LIMITS

    42. LIST OF WASTE SUBSTANCES WITH CONCENTRATION LIMITS

    43. LIST OF WASTE SUBSTANCES WITH CONCENTRATION LIMITS

    44. LIST OF WASTE SUBSTANCES WITH CONCENTRATION LIMITS

    45. LIST OF WASTE SUBSTANCES WITH CONCENTRATION LIMITS

    46. LIST OF PROCESSES GENERATING HAZARDOUS WASTES

    47. LIST OF PROCESSES GENERATING HAZARDOUS WASTES

    48. LIST OF PROCESSES GENERATING HAZARDOUS WASTES

    49. REPORT ON CLINICAL WASTE AUDIT 2005

    50. Hazardous liquid waste / month:

    51. Hazardous solid waste / month:

    52. In Conclusion: Key Issues Awareness and education Reporting systems & documentation Segregation of identified clinical infectious wastes at source Timely treatment by non-polluting technologies on-site or off-site Waste audit Waste monitoring systems Elevation of safety standards by all healthcare facilities All HCWs must have hygiene in their genes.

    53. Men occasionally stumble over the truth but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing has happened. - Sir Winston Churchill.

    54. Thank You

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