Health Care Waste Management Hospital Waste Color Coding 2019

Health care waste contains potentially harmful microorganisms that can infect hospital patients health workers and the general public.

Health care waste management hospital waste color coding 2019. Poor management of health care waste potentially exposes health care workers waste handlers patients and the community at large to infection toxic effects and injuries and risks polluting the environment. New updated color coding for bio medical waste management 2016 schedule i see rules 3 e 4 b 7 1 7 2 7 5 7 6 and 8 2 part 1 biomedical wastes categories and their segregation collection treatment processing and disposal options category type of waste type of bag or container to be used treatment and disposal options. Waste types from these environments have strict disposal guidelines and laws for handling and categorisation. Waste bin color coding in hospitals help healthcare staff easily segregate waste and identify which waste goes to which container to help prevent issues arising from random or improper disposal.

Among the suggested control measures was that health care facilities perform on site decontamination of laboratory waste containing live cultures of microorganisms before release of the waste to a waste management company. Studies shows that in pakistan in large hospitals 0 5 2 kg of waste is generated per bed per day. Color coding also provides a visual indication of the potential risk posed by the waste while the containers are in the facility of waste origin and after they have been transported elsewhere. Health care waste is a term used for all wastes arising from health care establishment.

Out of this 0 1 0 5 kg can be categorized as biomedical risk waste. Anybody who works in a health care environment such as a hospital dentistry office veterinary practice or any kind of laboratory knows that the waste they produced is handled is a specific way. 1 28 2014 let the waste of the sick not contaminate the lives of the healthy. Hospital waste management dr sharad h gajuryal jr md hospital administration bpkihs 2.

Although significant progress has been made. The table below shows an example of the color coding scheme for the types of medical waste from the uk s department of health. Introduction 1 1 background the management of health care waste in the country is driven by concerns about adverse health and environmental effects uncertainty regarding regulations and the negative perceptions by waste handlers. 1419 1420 this measure is supported by recommendations found in the cdc nih guideline for laboratory workers.

However health care waste is often not separated into hazardous or non hazardous wastes in low income countries making the real quantity of hazardous waste much higher. It is essential that all medical waste materials are segregated at the point of generation appropriately treated and disposed of safely.