Waste Solutions Florida

 

A facility or person who produces biomedical waste. Examples include, but are not limited to, home health agencies, hospitals, skilled nursing or convalescent hospitals, intermediate care facilities, clinics, dialysis clinics, blood banks, health maintenance organizations, physicians' offices, laboratories and emergency medical services. Waste Solutions Florida  This plan is designed to prescribe minimum sanitary practices relating to the management of biomedical waste in an effort to eliminate the exposure of employees, patients and the general public to disease causing agents by identifying safe handling, storing, labeling, transporting and disposing of biomedical waste. It shall be available for review by the department and employees. We all know that such waste may be dangerous and needs safe disposal. Industrial waste, sewage and agricultural waste pollute water, soil and air. It can also be dangerous to human beings and environment. Similarly, hospitals and other health care facilities generate lots of waste which can transmit infections, particularly HIV, Hepatitis B & C and Tetanus, to the people who handle it or come in contact with it. Bio-medical waste means “any solid and/or liquid waste including its container and any intermediate product, which is generated during the diagnosis, treatment or immunization of human beings or animals or research activities pertaining thereto or in the production or testing of biological or in health camps. Biomedical waste is any waste which is generated during the diagnosis, treatment or immunization of human beings or animals or in research activities pertaining thereto or in the production or testing of biologicals. Biomedical waste management has recently emerged as an issue of major concern to protect humans and environment as well.