Hello jer17,
Thanks very much for your question, and for the clarification which
helped me to understand what would serve your purpose. What
an important project to be working on!
I went right to the ?horse?s mouth? and asked the EPA where to find
the forms you are looking for.
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EPA & State Recommendations
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In its reply e-mail, the EPA included California?s and West
Virginia?s approaches to comprehensive medical waste management as
models. You will have to scroll through California?s Self Assessment Manual
for Proper Management of Medical Waste to get to the self-assessment
FORM at the end of Chapter 4. It is called the ?Self Assessment Tool?
for generators of medical waste. Go to:
http://www.dhs.ca.gov/ps/ddwem/environmental/Med_Waste/SELF_ASSESSMENT_MANUAL_REVISED.PDF
The above is a 1999 document, but it is one the EPA is citing as a model.
The State of California Dept. of Health Services also has a FORMS
download site, at;
http://dhs.ca.gov/publications/forms/ddwem.htm
The above includes forms for Medical Waste Facility Permits, Sharps
Mailbacks, a Transporter Spreadsheet, a Medical Waste Management
Checklist.
The EPA also directs us to West Virginia?s Medical Waste Management
Program, to be found at:
http://www.wvdhhr.org/wvimw/index.asp
They have an Annual Report Form for Large Quantity Generators
of Medical Waste at:
http://www.wvdhhr.org/wvimw/pdf/IW-10_LQG_Annual_Report.pdf
Once again, there?s no date on the form, but it?s one the EPA
is recommending.
Their Quarterly Report Form for Infectious Medical waste Transporters
can be found at:
http://www.wvdhhr.org/wvimw/pdf/IW-11_Transporter_Quarterly_Report.pdf
There is also West Virginia?s Infectious Medical Waste Manifest, at:
http://www.wvdhhr.org/wvimw/pdf/IW-03_Manifest.pdf
The EPA has posted a Medical Waste Tracking form at:
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/other/medical/mwpdfs/40cfr/15.pdf
The EPA also posts a ?Transporter Report Form? to identify the
generator of medical waste, the type of waste, and the transporter,
and treatment facility:
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/other/medical/mwpdfs/40cfr/16.pdf..
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Alternative Technologies
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You mentioned the latest technologies. California has a document
just released a week ago called Alternative Medical Waste Treatment
Technologies, at:
http://www.dhs.ca.gov/ps/ddwem/environmental/Med_Waste/alt_med_waste.pdf
I spoke with Steve Kubo, an inspector of Medical Waste for California
Dept of Health Services. He confirmed that everyone?s looking for
new technologies, and that California no longer incinerates medical
waste here. However, much of the waste here is trucked out of state to
Texas and the Dakotas to incinerators there.
Kubo also says that the forms the state puts out are mainly for
large waste generators, they don?t really have them out yet
for small doctors, dentists, and vet offices. Since California
is pretty much on the leading edge of environmental regulation,
it may be difficult to find government forms for small generators.
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Small Generators
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Here is the San Diego County Medical Waste Management Form you
previously viewed, posted at:
http://www.co.san-diego.ca.us/deh/hmd/forms_hmd.html#medical
The above form may be suitable for small generators, as
I have not found forms designed specifically for them.
There is a ?Medical Waste Tracking Document,? prepared by
El Dorado County, CA , very simple, possibly for small
generators:
http://www.co.el-dorado.ca.us/emd/forms/mwma_track_doc.html
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Animal Facilities
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Animal Biosafety Self- Audit. The following URL gives two checklists
for safety and health measures in laboratories where animals are kept.
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:kl5_65n-QQAJ:web.princeton.edu/sites/ehs/biosafety/AnimalFacility.pdf+animal+biosafety+self-audit&hl=en&start=1&ie=UTF-8
Here is another checklist for Laboratories containing animals and
their waste:
http://peakstoprairies.org/p2bande/voed/AuditAnimal.cfm
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Dental Waste
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This is an article on managing Dental Waste:
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:ocI_0AT1H88J:www.dentalproducts.net/xml/0102/gomo0102/gomo0102.asp+dental+waste++audit&hl=en&start=6&ie=UTF-8
This site has good information on Recycling Dental Wastes
(a slide show, not a form, though)
http://www.jspear.com/library/dental.htm
(You have to fill in the form to download the slides.)
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Waste Safety Precautions Checks
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The New York University Medical Center has a good list
of safety and health precautions to check:
http://www.med.nyu.edu/envservices/laboratory/lab_audit.pdf
There is an article on ?Managing Environmental Audits at Healthcare
Facilities at:
http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:NvNjZel14VsJ:www.environews.com/Hospitals_Healthcare/ERL_audit.htm++medical+waste+%2B+audit+questionnaire&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
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Medical Waste Management Company
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I spoke with a representative at Stericycle, a Medical Waste
Management Company. This company picks up medical waste
from veterinarians, hospitals, pediatricians, and dental offices.
The drivers from Stericycle are the ones who inventory the
containers of waste from each facility, and weigh them. According
to their representative, they have the forms that are used, and
fill them out. You can obtain forms from them. They are at:
http://www.stericycle.com/
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Medical Forms Company
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I also talked with George Fletcher of Medical Forms and Graphics.
He says he can make up forms for you from anything you
have downloaded. His phone number is 1-800-997-3575.
He is in Georgia, but has distribution centers throughout
the U.S.
http://medicalforms.com/
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Another Resource
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Hospitals for a Healthy Environment is at:
http://www.h2e-online.org/
It posts a good article on Hospital Waste Assessment at:
http://www.h2e-online.org/pubs/wrguide/section4.pdf
I have many calls out to medical facility plant managers, but it
being the Friday before Christmas break, I have not heard back.
I am going to go ahead and post this answer. Then I will post any
call backs I get next week that are useful. Once you have
looked at the forms listed, please feel free to press the
?Clarify Answer Button? and ask me any follow-ups, before
you rate my work.
Sincerely,
cath-ga
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Clarification of Answer by
cath-ga
on
23 Dec 2003 15:53 PST
jer,
I just received in the mail a catalogue I ordered last week
from Briggs Corporation, apparently "the leading vendor
of medical forms." You will probably want to phone up and order
the free catalogue as I did. It seems to have several forms you
would be interested in. (Call 1-800-247-2343) It came in 5 days.
If you call the phone number, they will also fax you any
form you want to see up close. But you pretty much have
to know what you want to see first.
You can go to the Briggs website and see them at:
http://www.briggscorp.com/
You don? have to log in, just click Products, and search.
Their ?Right to Know Regulatory Compliance and Training
Manual? contains information detailing what the workers need
to know about working around hazardous chemicals. Product
# 8646E has it in English, 8648S has it in Spanish. They also
have a video on this, also in English and Spanish
It?s on p 306 of the catalogue.
Also on 306 and 307 are:
Form CFS 14-24, their Hazardous Materials Log.
You can find it on the Website, but unfortunately they
have included the blurb for 14-25 in its place. So you
have to phone and ask them to fax it to you to see
what it really says. It is a form assessing the
facilities' programs for dealing with hazardous materials.
Form CFS 14-9 is their Safety-Infection Control Quality
Assurance Checklist. It is a checklist auditing the facilities?
procedures for dealing with infection and infectious waste.
Once again, they will fax you any form you want to see up close.
This company seems like a really good resource for you. They are
accustomed to providing products in Spanish, and also offer
custom forms.
cath-ga
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