SF3020 Medical Waste Management Syllabus:

SF3020 Medical Waste Management Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021

OBJECTIVES

1. Study Medical waste management
2. Learn about and technologies in health care waste management.
3. Fundamentals of Environment and Health Care Waste Management Regulation
4. Health Care Waste Management Concepts, Technologies and Training
5. Understand various waste disposal procedures and management.

UNIT I WASTE MANAGEMENT

Waste Around Us, Definition and Identification, Classification of Wastes, Characterization of Wastes and its Importance, Principles of Waste Management, Collection and Segregation, Recycle, Recovery and Reuse, Transportation and Disposal, Waste Disposal versus Waste Management.

UNIT II DEFINITIONS, TYPES AND CATEGORIES OF WASTE

Definition of Waste, Municipal Waste, Health Care Waste, Sources of Health Care Waste, Types of Health Care Waste, Infectious and Non-infectious Waste, Hazardous Health Care Waste, Solid Health Care Waste and its Sources, Liquid Health Care Waste and its Sources, Biodegradable and Non-biodegradable Waste, Categories of Health Care Waste.

UNIT III HANDLING HEALTH CARE

Waste- Source Identification, Segregation, Collection, Transportation and Disposal, Segregated Collection, Storage, Transportation Chain, Final Treatment and Disposal Including Secured Landfill, Management of Metallic Waste, Management of Chemical Waste, Management of Certain Specialized Waste, Pharmaceutical Waste, Cytotoxic Waste,Radioactive Waste and Pressurized Containers.

UNIT IV IMPACT OF HEALTH CARE WASTE ON HUMAN HEALTH

Effects of Physical Pollutants, Environmental and Health Risk Associated with Medical Waste, Effects of Chemical Pollutants, Effects of Biological Pollutants, Effects of Radiological Pollutants, Sources of Infectious Agents in Health Care Waste, Infectious Waste Categories, Various Organisms in Health Care Waste, Health Care Waste, Susceptibility, Risk and Impact of Health Care Waste on Health Providers, Risk Susceptibility from Hospital Waste, Categories of the Persons Exposed to Risk of Infections.

UNIT V IMPACT OF HEALTH CARE WASTE ON OUR ENVIRONMENT

Chemicals in Health Care Waste,Case Study, Mercury, Lead, Cadmium, Chromium, Disinfectants, Gaseous Pollutants, Impact on Environment, Effect on Atmosphere, Impact on Food and Livestock, Impact on Water and Aquifer and Impact on Marine Ecosystem.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

TEXT BOOKS:

1. Tweedy, James T., Healthcare hazard control and safety management-CRC Press Taylor and Francis (2014).
2. Anantpreet Singh, SukhjitKaur, Biomedical Waste Disposal, Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd (2012).

REFERENCES:

1. R.C.Goyal, Hospital Administration and Human Resource Management, PHI – Fourth Edition, 2006
2. V.J. Landrum, Medical Waste Management and disposal, Elsevier, 1991

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