Guidelines for INFECTION CONTROL POLICY - Safdarjung Hospital

Minimization (ofwaste)MonitoringOn-site facilityPharmaceuticalPressurizedcontainersRadioactive wasteRecyclingRiskSanitary landfillSegregationSharpsSterllizationPeriodic or continuous surveillance or testing to determine the levelof compliance with statutory requirements and/or pollutant levels invarious media or in humans, animals and other living things.a clinical and related waste treatment, storage or disposal facilitythat is located on the generating siteconsisting of/or containing pharmaceuticalsconsists of containers (full or empty) with pressurized liquid, gas orpowdered materials.material contaminated with a radioisotope which arises from themedicalor research use of radionuclides. It may be in a solid, liquid orgaseous forma term embracing the recovery and reuse of scrape or wastematerial for manufacturing or other purposes.Probability that a hazard will cause harm and the severity of thatharmcharacterized by the controlled and organized deposit of wasteswhich is then covered regularly (daily) by the staff present on site.Appropriate engineering preparations of the site and a favorablegeological setting (providing an insolation of wastes from theenvironment) are requiredthe control of all the factors in the physical environment thatexercise or can exercise a deleterious effect on human physicaldevelopment, health and survival.sharps are a subcategory of infectious health-care waste andinclude objects that are sharp and can cause injuriesa process used to reach a state of free of viable micro-organisms.Note that in a sterilization process, the nature of microbiologicaldeath or reduction is described by an experiment function. Therefor,the number of micro-organisms that survive a sterillization processcan be expressed in terms of probability. While the probability maybe reduced to a very low number, it can never be reduced to zero.the placement of waste isolation, environment and health protectionand human control (e.g. monitoring for radioactivity, limitation ofaccess) are provided. This is done with the intention that the wastewill be subsequently retrieved for treatment and conditioning and/or disposal (or clearance of radioactive waste)Storageany method, technique or process for altering the biological, chemicalor physical characteristics or waste to reduce the hazards it presentsand facilitate, or reduce the costs of, disposal. The basic treatmentobjective include volume reduction, disinfection, neutralization orother change of composition to reduce hazards, including removalor radionuclides from radioactive wasteWaste management all the activities-administrative and operational - involved in thehandling, treatment, conditioning, storage, transportation and disposalof waste33