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Understanding Healthcare Waste Management: Insights from Kaiser Permanente

Join us for an insightful presentation by Gary A. Symons on June 8, 2006, at Kaiser Permanente, Anaheim, CA, where we explore the critical aspects of workplace safety, healthcare, and environmental responsibility. Delve into the challenges of waste management, including solid, medical, and hazardous waste disposal. Learn about the importance of recycling and the impact of regulations on healthcare facilities. Drawing inspiration from influential figures like Henry J. Kaiser and Thomas Edison, this session emphasizes the need for activism in promoting a sustainable future.

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Understanding Healthcare Waste Management: Insights from Kaiser Permanente

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  1. Second HandPresented by Gary A. Symons June 8, 2006 KAISER PERMANENTE Anaheim, CA

  2. Kaiser Permanente • Hoover Dam and Grand Coulee Dam • Worker Healthcare • Workplace Safety • Green “ I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don’t dream I will make it, I won’t even get close” Henry J. Kaiser (1882-1967)

  3. Second Hand and Me • Junior Environmentalist • Required by Trade • Laws and Regulations “The Worlds Not Perfect” My Mom

  4. Second Hand Waste • Solid Waste • Confidential Waste • Recycled Waste • Hazardous Waste • Universal Waste • Medical Waste

  5. Medical Waste • Biohazardous Waste • Trace Chemotherapy Waste • Pathological Waste • Sharps Waste • California Only Medical Waste

  6. Pharmaceutical Waste • RCRA (Hazardous Waste) • Solid Waste • California Only Medical Waste “The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.” Thomas Edison - Inventor

  7. California Only Medical Waste • Method of disposal in Healthcare • Method of disposal out of Healthcare • This isn’t a “California Only” Concern “Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

  8. What can we do about the future? • Our goal today • Activism and Education • Live Long and Thrive “The future will be better tomorrow” Ex-Vice President Dan Quayle

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