HEALTHCARE WASTE MANAGEMENT
A Template For Action |
A manual to help you adapt to changing rules on medical waste
Researched and written by
BARBARA J. GRUENDEMANN, RN, MS, FAAN,
Educator, Author and Project Director in
Perioperative Nursing & Infection Prevention
| Manual topics
The manual takes an objective scientific approach to the following:
- Basic interpretation of the recent EPA rule on hospital/medical/infectious waste incinerators
- Decision tree for applying EPA rule to your facility
- Minimize costs for managing red bag medical waste
- How to segregate red bag waste
- Checklist for waste minimization in your facility
- Sample waste reduction plan
- What other healthcare facilities are doing
- What experts are saying
- Waste treatment options
- List of State EPA regulators
- Comprehensive Bibliography
Reviewed by:
William A. Rutala, Ph.D., MPH Professor of Medicine
Director, Statewide Infection Control Program
Director, Hospital Epidemiology
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC
and
Medical Waste Institute
Washington, DC |
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This Manual contains material collected from many sources. While the authors have attempted to verify the accuracy of the entire contents of this publication, we take no responsibility for those materials that were not specifically drafted by us. Moreover, some of the material in this publication may contain subjective and/or interpretive points of view that may or may not, reflect the views of the authors and those who have reviewed the text.
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