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It explains how waste from infectious sources, heavy metals, radioactivity, and pharmaceuticals can pose hazards, and why correct segregation prevents cost increases and treatment overload. Effective plans integrate avoidance and minimization, segregation and containment, safe handling, storage and transport, plus treatment and disposal. 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The risk originates from waste that may be hazardous due to infectious agents, heavy metals (such as mercury), radioactivity (from oncology treatments), as well as redundant and expired pharmaceuticals. General waste, which includes the waste produced from activities in the kitchen, in offices and from other nonhazardous sources, may be safely minimized by recycling and reuse and the residual amount disposed of by landfilling. If risk waste and nonrisk waste (general waste) are combined, they must be treated as risk waste, thus larger volumes of waste than necessary are submitted for treatment, which may overload the treatment capacity, leading to stockpiling of untreated risk waste. Waste that is incorrectly segregated leads to increased costs of waste management.\nThere is an opportunity to reduce risk and costs by managing waste effectively. For waste to be managed, it must be measured. General waste should comprise 70-80% of the facility’s waste stream. If the figure is less, this usually means that nonhazardous waste is being discarded with hazardous waste. It is much more expensive to treat waste before disposal than to manage it as general waste. Squandering financial resources on inappropriate waste management will result in less to spend on helping people to live healthy lives.\nThe health care facility’s waste management plan should integrate all aspects of managing waste, from avoidance and minimization, proper segregation and containment, safe handling, storage and transport, to treatment and disposal. It should clearly define roles and responsibilities of staff, guiding principles, as well as the requirements for training and awareness. Reference to the legal requirements should be made to ensure compliance is established and standards maintained. The allocation of resources also needs to be set out, in terms of finances, time, equipment and personnel.\nDefinitions\nDuty of care — do no harm to people or the environment by considering the impact from cradle to grave.\nGreen procurement — minimize waste by specifying packaging requirements, take-back policies, just-in-time buying to avoid waste from expired products, substitution of hazardous items/constituents, etc. This is crucial to implementing the Waste Hierarchy (see figure on the next page).\nMeasure to manage — you need to know how much waste you make to control it.\nPrecautionary principle — if the hazard is unknown, presume the worst.\nProximity principle — reduce the risk from transport by managing wastes as close to the source as possible, within reason, and ensuring that the best practicable option is considered.\nSeparation at source — to ensure that hazardous and nonhazardous wastes are separated, as well as those that can be recycled/reused.\nWaste hierarchy — waste generation is avoided where possible; minimized by recycling, reusing, recovering, refurbishing, etc.; treated to reduce the risk; and only the smallest residue incinerated or disposed of to landfill.\nResponsibilities\nEvery member of the facility is responsible for the waste they generate; however, certain personnel will have specific waste management tasks and responsibilities assigned to them.\nFacility manager – overall responsibility and accountability for waste generated and managed on site, as well as for transport from the facility for treatment and/or disposal off-site. The manager is also responsible for ensuring that sufficient resources are allocated to waste management to ensure compliance with legal and other requirements.\nFacility management and supervis","cbCaigCUaJJQgRzH","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigCUaJJQgRzH","docx",89604,10,"English","# Purpose\n# Scope\n# Definitions\n## Duty of care\n## Green procurement\n## Measure to manage\n## Precautionary principle\n## Proximity principle\n## Separation at source\n## Waste hierarchy\n# Responsibilities\n## Facility manager\n## Facility management and supervisors\n## Waste generators\n## Waste handlers\n## Waste management officers\n## Waste management committee\n## Contractors\n# Materials and Equipment\n# Hazards and Safety Concerns\n# Procedures\n## Contents of the plan","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of this health care waste management plan guidance?\",\"answer\":\"It describes what is required when developing a health care facility waste management plan, including the elements needed for effective and compliant waste management.\"},{\"question\":\"Why is proper waste segregation critical in health care facilities?\",\"answer\":\"Incorrect segregation increases waste management costs and can cause nonhazardous waste to be treated as hazardous, leading to larger volumes submitted for treatment and potential overload and stockpiling.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the waste management plan need to include from start to finish?\",\"answer\":\"It should cover avoidance and minimization, proper segregation and containment, safe handling, storage and transport, and then treatment and disposal, while defining roles, guiding principles, training requirements, and resource allocation.\"}]","Facility Health Care Waste Management Plan - Guidance | DOCX"]