What information is available to assist facilities which are required to develop a clinical and related waste management plan?
A. S43 of the Environmental Protection (Waste Management) Regulation 2000 requires blood banks, hospitals, laboratories, multi-service medical clinics and veterinary hospitals to develop a clinical and related waste management plan. Whilst there is no set format, s44 sets out the matters to be considered in the plan. Supplementary information is available in the following documents: • The department Guidelines on: • defining clinical waste; • clinical and related waste storage; • clinical and related waste treatment and disposal; • transporting clinical and related waste; • pharmaceutical and cytotoxic waste management; • exempted clinical waste; and • managing clinical and related waste in scheduled areas; • Queensland Health, 1996, “Guideline for the management of clinical and related wastes in public health care establishments”; • Australian Standard AS 3816:1998. “Management of clinical and related wastes”; • National Health and Medical Research Council, 1999, “National guidelines
