Biomedical Waste Management

This book tries to be a simple compilation of comparative and related facts, appropriate to understand the significance of knowledge disbursal, before some formal training is imparted to the hospital employees, patients and society. A Health Care employer also needs to know about the hazards associated with biomedical wastes and kind of works likely to give arise to exposures. There is a definite need for creation of effective and efficient management programme for the proper handling and disposal of biomedical wastes generated by healthcare facility. Therefore this book aims to ensure that every healthcare worker, as well as all others who are likely to be exposed to biomedical wastes, is properly educated as to the hazards associated with improper biomedical waste management. The book further aims to create an easy to comprehend resource tool that can be used by facilities that generate biomedical wastes and identify appropriate waste disposal technologies.