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Hazardous Waste Management in Health Care

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By Braun Intertec | August 24, 2017

When it comes to managing the hazardous waste in the health care industry, “you don’t know what you don’t know” can hurt you.  If hazardous waste isn’t managed properly, your medical facility could be at risk for fines, legal action, or a public relations nightmare.

Hospitals ranked third – behind printed circuit board manufacturers and copper foundries – on the Environmental Protection Agency’s list of sectors with the most violations relating to hazardous wastes. And the EPA is not the only regulatory agency that can weigh in. Health care facilities (hospitals, clinics, laboratories) without good hazardous waste management procedures can also end up in the crosshairs of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the Department of Transportation (DOT), and one or more state regulatory bodies.

Many health care facilities make errors in their hazardous waste determinations – that is, personnel assume certain chemicals are hazardous, when they’re not, or conversely, mis-classify other waste that in fact classified as hazardous.  When that occurs, the health care facility is almost certainly failing to handle actual hazardous wastes properly, while at the same paying a premium to handle materials that aren’t classified as hazardous by the EPA or other regulatory agencies.

W&M Environmental Group’s  Lori Siegelman  outlines these and other risks of improper waste management – and steps you can take to ensure compliance — in our White Paper. Click the Request White Paper button above to read.

Register now for our webinar Lori is hosting on what you need to know about managing hazardous waste in healthcare by clicking Healthcare HazWaste.  Lori also instructs an 8 hour course on Hazardous Waste Management in Dallas and Houston in the fall to help companies keep abreast of rule changes and meet the requirements for staff training.  For more information on these courses please click RCRA.

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