Handle Waste Safely and Smartly

1. Ensure proper training.; 2. Change containers often.; 3. Perform waste audits.; 4. Reduce use of blue wrap.; 5. Use a closed fluid waste system.; 6. Autoclave medical waste on site.; Alerting; Autoclave; Begin; Blue; Change; Ensure; OSHA; Perform; Pouring; Recycling; Red; Reduce; Staff; Sterilizing; Studying; Switching; Throwing; Tossing; accordance; add-on; adding; adds; adenosine; alternative; amount; anticipating; area; arrive; attention; audit; audits; auger; authorities; autoclavable; autoclave; avoid; aware; bag; bags; baled; begun; bills; bioluminescence; blood; bloody; blue; body; bulky; canister; canisters; change; charges; check; close; cloth; collect; coming; community; comply; compromising; conduct; consequences; considerable; consolidated; constantly; contact; container; containers; contaminated; contents; contract; control; cost; cover; cut; decisions; delicate; demand; department; departments; depending; detect; determine; differ; directly; discovered; disposable; disposal; dispose; disposing; divert; dock; drag; drain; drainage; drop; dropped; due; elevator; eliminate; employee; end; ended; ensure; entire; environment; environmental; equipment; expense; expensive; facilities; facility; federal; figure; final; financial; fixes; floor; flow; fluid; fluids; follow; found; front; garbage; generated; generation; goggles; guarantees; handle; handling; hard-pack; hauled; hazardous; healthcare; heavy; helps; high; higher; hold; hospital; ideas; impact; impervious; important; improve; in-house; increase; incurring; infection; infectious; injury-free; inside; insightful; internal; investment; invite; items; jumping; keeping; labor; landfill; large; learned; leaves; legal; liability; liable; lift; limit; liners; loading; loads; local; long; lot; made; maintaining; maintenance; major; majority; make; management; manager; manifested; manufacturer's; mask; material; meant; medical; members; meter; mind; mistakes; money; month; move; needlestick; noninfectious; notify; observe; obstacles; opportunity; order; organisms; orientation; overcome; overfilled; overweight; part; pay; paying; percent; perform; performing; person; pick; plastic; polypropylene; pose; practice; presence; problems; process; processes; processing; proper; properly; protection; protective; punched; purchase; purchasing; put; quantify; quick; randomly; rarely; reaches; reasons; record; recouped; recyclables; recycle; recycled; recyclers; recycling; red; reduce; reduces; reducing; refresher; regular; regulated; regulations; remedy; require; resource; responsible; rest; reusable; reviewing; risk; risks; risky; road; room; rule; run; safe; safely; sanitation; saturated; save; saving; scale; segregate; send; sending; separating; services; sessions; simple; single-use; size; solid; solidifier; solidifying; space; special; spillage; splashback; sponge; spreadsheet; staff; started; startup; state; stay; sterile; sterilized; storage; store; streams; suction; surface; surgical; surprised; system; takes; test; thrown; tie; total; tour; trail; training; transferred; transport; transported; trash; trays; treatment; trending; triphosphate; tubing; tubs; turns; tweak; types; understand; unnecessary; unregulated; upfront; upstream; usage; validation; vendor; vendors; verification; verified; warned; waste; waste-disposal; ways; wear; weigh; weighing; weight; white; work; worth; wrap; year