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Dignity Healt M St. Joseph's Medical Center • Ensuring all personnel complete and maintain the required safety training prior to handling, generating, or transporting medical waste, in addition to laboratory - specific training. • Immediately reporting exposure or spills involving biohazardous materials, including biohazard waste. All personnel generating medical waste are responsible for reading and complying with the requirements set out in this plan. Each medical waste accumulation site has a representative who is responsible for maintenance of the biohazard accumulation waste storage site, and facilitates the pick-up of medical waste with Stericycle. Personnel responsible for accumulations sites, or other assigned personnel will complete the SJMC Medical Waste Management Training. Upon completion, all of these individuals will help manage and maintain the storage site to ensure regulatory compliance. Online Bloodborne Pathogen training through SJMC is also required for individuals handling human blood or human source materials. Reference The Medical Waste Management Act (MWMA) California Health and Safety Code, Sections 117600 — 118360 governs the management of medical waste in all jurisdictions of the state. The most current version of the MWMA can be found on the CDPH - Medical Waste Management Program webpage: https://www.cdph.ca. gov/certlic/medicalwaste/Pages/default.aspx. WASTE IDENTIFICATION Biohazard Yl'asle Biohazard waste is: Regulated medical waste, clinical waste, liquid waste, or biomedical waste that is a waste or reusable material derived from the medical treatment of a human, or from an animal that is suspected by the attending veterinarian of being infected with a pathogen that is also infectious to humans, which includes diagnosis and immunization; or from biomedical research, which includes the production and testing of biological products. Regulated medical, clinical, or biomedical waste suspected of containing a highly communicable disease. Laboratory waste such as human specimen cultures; wastes from the production of bacteria, viruses, spores, discarded live and attenuated vaccines used in human health care; culture dishes, devices used to transfer, inoculate, and mix cultures; and wastes identified by Section 173.134 of Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations as Category B "once wasted" for laboratory wastes. Waste that, at the point of transport from the generator's site or at the point of disposal contains recognizable fluid human blood, fluid human blood products, containers, or equipment containing human blood that is fluid, or blood from animals