Health Care Waste Management

Flashcards for Health Care Waste Management Review

Expired medicine (tablet or capsule) should be placed in a _ if health care is undertaken at home.

Black bag

Entire bottle of expired medicine liquid should be placed in a _ if health care is undertaken at home.

Brown container

The Waste Management Hierarchy includes:

Prevent, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recover, Treat

Systematize the use of products with _ administrative control measures.

First in, first out

_ is the process of separating different types of waste at the point of generation until its final disposal.

Segregation

The correct segregation of HCW is the responsibility of _.

The person who produces each waste item

Waste bags should be filled to no more than _.

Three-quarters full

Waste bags thickness should be at least _.

0.07mm

Sharps waste color coding for Bins/Containers.

Yellow

Infectious waste color coding for Liners.

Yellow

Pathological Waste color coding for Bin/Container/Liners.

Brown

Anatomical Waste color coding.

Orange

Concrete Vault is NOT suitable for disposal of _.

Placenta pit

Autoclave and microwave are examples of _.

Steam Treatment Technology

Basic Treatment Processes includes _.

Biological, Burial of pathological wastes

Waste treatment aims to .

Eliminate hazard/or exposure

Filling up of containers with waste and immobilizing materials and sealing the containers

Encapsulation

Mixing waste with cement before disposal, mostly for pharmaceutical wastes.

Inertization