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involved. It should also show type of waste involved and emergency measures
taken.
10 TRAINING
10.1 All the medical professional must be made aware of Bio-medical waste
(Management & Handling) Rules, 1998.
10.2 Each and every hospital must have well planned awareness and training
programme for all categories of personnel including administrators to make them
aware about safe hospital waste management practices.
10.3 Training should be conducted category wise and more emphasis should be given
in training modules as per category of personnel.
10.4 Training should be conducted in appropriate language/medium and in an
acceptable manner.
10.5 Wherever possible audio-visual material and experienced trainers should be used.
Hand on training about colour coded bags, categorization and chemical
disinfections can be given to concerned employees.
10.6 Training should be interactive and should include, demonstration sessions,
Behavioural science approach should be adopted with emphasis on establishing
proper practices. Training is a continuous process and will need constant
reinforcement.
11. MANAGEMENT & ADMINISTRATION
11.1 The Head of the Hospital shall form a waste Management Committee under his
Chairmanship. The Waste Management Committee shall meet regularly to review
the performance of the waste disposal. This Committee should be responsible for
making hospital specific action plan for hospital waste management and for its
supervision, monitoring implementation and looking after the safety of the biomedical
waste handlers.
11.2 The Heads of each hospital will have to take authorization for generation of waste
from appropriate authorities well in time as notified by the concerned State/U.T.
Government and get it renewed as per time schedule laid in the rules. The
application is to be made as per format given in form I for grant of authorization.
(Please See page 18 of notifies BMW Rules)
11.3 The annual reports accident reporting, as required under BMW rules should be
submitted to the concerned authorities as per BMW rules format ( Form II and
Form III respectively) (Please see pages 19 & 20 of BMW Rules).
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