Waste management in hospitals, March 2005.
| dc.contributor.author | Department of Health (DoH) | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-08-18T11:03:59Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2015-08-18T11:03:59Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2005-03 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Department of Health. 1995. Waste management in hospitals, March 2005. Dublin: Department of Health and Children. | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10147/574987 | en |
| dc.description | Potentially hazardous waste materials arising from healthcare related activities usually referred to as healthcare risk waste requires special management and the use of costly handling and disposal arrangements to avoid causing infection or injury to those who come in contact with it, and to minimise negative impacts on the environment. Because of the scale and nature of the services they provide, hospitals also produce large volumes of non risk waste. Historically, small incinerators located on hospital grounds were used to dispose of both risk and non-risk waste. In that context, waste was generally not seen as a significant cost issue or an activity that needed to be monitored closely. Because the hospital incinerators failed to meet increasing environmental standards, they were closed in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and attention was given to finding alternative cost-effective ways to treat and dispose of risk waste, Since then, increasing costs and tighter regulations governing waste disposal provide a growing incentive for hospitals to improve the management of all forms of waste. | en_GB |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Govenment of Ireland. | en_GB |
| dc.subject | HEALTH SERVICES AND THEIR MANAGEMENT | en_GB |
| dc.subject | WASTE DISPOSAL | en_GB |
| dc.subject | WASTE MANAGEMENT | en_GB |
| dc.subject | HEALTH CARE | en_GB |
| dc.title | Waste management in hospitals, March 2005. | en_GB |
| dc.type | Report | en |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2018-08-27T04:28:08Z |
