AS/NZS 3816:1998
Management of clinical and related wastes
Sets out requirements for the identification, segregation, handling, storage, transport, treatment and ultimate safe disposal of clinical and related wastes which may be hazardous, in an environmentally responsible manner. Wastes arising from medical, nursing, dental, veterinary, laboratory, pharmaceutical, podiatry, tattooing, body piercing and mortuary practices, inter alia, are dealt with in the Standard.
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AS/NZS 3816:1998 MANAGEMENT OF CLINICAL AND RELATED WASTES
PREFACE
CONTENTS
1 SCOPE
2 REFERENCED DOCUMENTS
3 DEFINITIONS
3.1 Bund
3.2 Clinical and related wastes
3.2.1 Animal waste
3.2.2 Chemical waste
3.2.3 Clinical waste
3.2.4 Cytotoxic waste
3.2.5 Hazardous waste
3.2.6 Human tissue waste
3.2.7 Laboratory waste
3.2.8 Pharmaceutical waste
3.2.9 Radioactive waste
3.2.10 Sharps
3.3 General waste
3.4 May
3.5 Recyclable waste
3.6 Reusable
3.7 Shall
3.8 Should
4 WASTE MANAGEMENT POLICY
5 CATEGORIZATION OF CLINICAL AND RELATED WASTES
5.1 Clinical wastes
5.2 Related wastes
6 SEGREGATION OF WASTES
7 CONTAINERS
7.1 Plastic bags
7.2 Rigid-walled containers
7.2.1 Sharps containers
7.2.2 Other rigid-walled containers
8 EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLAN
8.1 Emergency plan
8.2 Emergency spill kits
9 HANDLING
10 MOVEMENT OF WASTES WITHIN THE ESTABLISHMENT
10.1 General
10.2 Wastes in plastic bags
10.3 Wastes in rigid-walled containers
10.4 Trolleys for movement of clinical wastes contained in plastic bags or non-mobile rigid walled containers
11 STORAGE REQUIREMENTS
11.1 General
11.2 Requirements for waste generators
11.3 Requirements for storage areas used for clinical and related wastes
12 TRANSPORTATION
12.1 General
12.2 Transportation by road
13 TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL OF CLINICAL AND RELATED WASTES
13.1 General
13.2 Clinical wastes
13.3 Cytotoxic wastes
13.4 Pharmaceutical wastes
13.5 Chemical wastes
13.6 Radioactive waste
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AS/NZS 3816:1998 MANAGEMENT OF CLINICAL AND RELATED WASTES
PREFACE
CONTENTS
1 SCOPE
2 REFERENCED DOCUMENTS
3 DEFINITIONS
3.1 Bund
3.2 Clinical and related wastes
3.2.1 Animal waste
3.2.2 Chemical waste
3.2.3 Clinical waste
3.2.4 Cytotoxic waste
3.2.5 Hazardous waste
3.2.6 Human tissue waste
3.2.7 Laboratory waste
3.2.8 Pharmaceutical waste
3.2.9 Radioactive waste
3.2.10 Sharps
3.3 General waste
3.4 May
3.5 Recyclable waste
3.6 Reusable
3.7 Shall
3.8 Should
4 WASTE MANAGEMENT POLICY
5 CATEGORIZATION OF CLINICAL AND RELATED WASTES
5.1 Clinical wastes
5.2 Related wastes
6 SEGREGATION OF WASTES
7 CONTAINERS
7.1 Plastic bags
7.2 Rigid-walled containers
7.2.1 Sharps containers
7.2.2 Other rigid-walled containers
8 EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLAN
8.1 Emergency plan
8.2 Emergency spill kits
9 HANDLING
10 MOVEMENT OF WASTES WITHIN THE ESTABLISHMENT
10.1 General
10.2 Wastes in plastic bags
10.3 Wastes in rigid-walled containers
10.4 Trolleys for movement of clinical wastes contained in plastic bags or non-mobile rigid walled containers
11 STORAGE REQUIREMENTS
11.1 General
11.2 Requirements for waste generators
11.3 Requirements for storage areas used for clinical and related wastes
12 TRANSPORTATION
12.1 General
12.2 Transportation by road
13 TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL OF CLINICAL AND RELATED WASTES
13.1 General
13.2 Clinical wastes
13.3 Cytotoxic wastes
13.4 Pharmaceutical wastes
13.5 Chemical wastes
13.6 Radioactive waste
Previous versions
AS/NZS 3816:1998
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