This customizable document, Hazardous Materials and Waste - Departmental Management, is taken from MCN Healthcare’s Central Service Policy and Procedure Manual. For more than 20 years, MCN has been the health care industry’s leading provider of policy and procedure templates, forms, competencies and other compliance tools.

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	OBJECTIVES: Develop a program that properly identifies hazardous materials and addresses the handling, transport, storage and safe disposal of these materials. GENERAL INFORMATION: A hazardous material is any material in use that is considered to represent a threat to human life or health. A hazardous waste is a material no longer in use that represents such a threat. Once a material is used, contaminated or determined to be in excess of the amount required, it is considered waste. Methods for handling each type of waste is outlined in the following policies and procedures and monitored...
Second excerpt:
	...within the hospital including Nutritional Services Department. It is usually collected at the point of use and segregated into containers intended for only one kind of chemical waste. Waste from chemicals shall never be mixed together because they can react together and cause serious problems, such as explosions and/or deadly gas emission. The following is a simple, generalized, step-by-step process that could be used to handle and transport chemical waste: The components of each type of...