<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The production of clinical waste is an inevitable consequence of rendering health services, including hazardous infectious clinical waste containing live pathogenic microorganisms, which can be the potential source of infections and infectious diseases. For this reason, the management of waste collected during rendering health services most of all requires responsibility for the security of both patients and staff on the part of the managers of healthcare-institutions. The results of hospital inspections in the field of clinical-waste management conducted by the Voivodeship Sanitary Inspection in Lublin, which were made available for the purpose of this paper, have shown numerous irregularities concerning the management of hazardous clinical waste. Most of the irregularities involved the condition of premises and the temporary storage of clinical waste.</p></abstract>

The production of clinical waste is an inevitable consequence of rendering health services, including hazardous infectious clinical waste containing live pathogenic microorganisms, which can be the potential source of infections and infectious diseases. For this reason, the management of waste collected during rendering health services most of all requires responsibility for the security of both patients and staff on the part of the managers of healthcare-institutions. The results of hospital inspections in the field of clinical-waste management conducted by the Voivodeship Sanitary Inspection in Lublin, which were made available for the purpose of this paper, have shown numerous irregularities concerning the management of hazardous clinical waste. Most of the irregularities involved the condition of premises and the temporary storage of clinical waste.

Violations of the law in hospital medical waste management

Environmental Protection and Natural Resources

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The production of clinical waste is an inevitable consequence of rendering health services, including hazardous infectious clinical waste containing live...

Violations of the law in hospital medical waste management

Published Online: May 25, 2018

Page range: 6 - 10

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/oszn-2018-0002

Keywords
waste, hazardous clinical waste, hospital, waste management

© 2018 Marzena Furtak – Niczyporuk, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Violations of the law in hospital medical waste management

Published Online: May 25, 2018

Page range: 6 - 10

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/oszn-2018-0002

Keywordswaste, hazardous clinical waste, hospital, waste management

© 2018 Marzena Furtak – Niczyporuk, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
waste, hazardous clinical waste, hospital, waste management