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lemedical WasteManagement Plan* Kaiser Permanente —Manteca Medical Center 1/01/2020-12/31/2020 • Only for our Emergency Department(ED/ER), Intensive Care Unit(ICU)and Operating Room(OR)departments: These departments will not have waste containers for solid trash collection located within their patient room areas.They will only have red bag collection available in the patient rooms. • The Environmental Services(EV )staff will collect these red bag waste after each patient has been discharged/relocated from these rooms. • Solid waste containers will be available in other areas throughout these departments. • This facility utilizes reusable/recyclable pharmaceutical sharps containers through our waste hauler-Stericycle Reusable Sharps Program. • Waste will be labeled on all sides and top to be visible from any lateral direction. • Reusable rigid carts/containers are used to transport medical waste from the department to the accumulation area. • All containers shall be maintained in a clean and sanitary manner. • Transport carts/containers are lined with plastic liners and when liners are removed they are placed in a biohazardous bag. • Carts will be cleaned according to Environmental Services(EVS)/Infection Control cleaning procedures for medical waste carts. • A person shall thoroughly wash and decontaminate reusable rigid carts containers for medical waste by a method approved by the enforcement agency each time they are emptied,unless the surfaces of the containers have been completely protected from contamination by disposable liners,bags,or other devices removed with the waste. • Approved methods of decontamination include,but are not limited to,agitation to remove visible soil combined with one of the following procedures: • Exposure to hot water of at least 82 degrees Centigrade(180 degrees Fahrenheit) for a minimum of 15 seconds. (b)Exposure to chemical sanitizer by rinsing with,or immersion in,one of the following for a minimum of three minutes: (1)Hypochlorite solution(500 ppm available chlorine). (2)Phenolic solution(500 ppm active agent). (3)Iodoform solution(100 ppm available iodine). (4)Quaternary ammonium solution(400 ppm active agent). (5)Pure Chlorine(500 ppm), Dilution of 5m1 in 100 ml of water. (6)Oxycide(Peroxyacetic Acid Hydrogen Peroxide)Concentrate The following materials are classified as medical waste: Container Requirements , abefing--l�meedu I res: Sharps Waste-a device that has acute rigid comers,edges,or protuberances capable of cutting or piercing,including,but not limited to,hypodermic needles,hypodermic Shall be contained in a United States Food and Drug Administration(USFDA) needles with syringes,blades,needles with attached tubing,acupuncture needles,root approved sharps container that meets USFDA labeling requirements and is canal files,broken glass items used in health care such as Pasteur pipettes and blood handled pursuant to Section 118285.'Sharps Waste",or the Biohazard symbol vials contaminated with biohazardous waste,and any item capable of cutting or and the word"BIOHAZARD" piercing from trauma scene waste. Pathological Waste-Human body parts,with the exception of teeth,removed at Shall be segregated for storage and,when placed in a secondary container,that surgery and surgery specimens or tissues removed at surgery or autopsy that are container shall be labeled with the words"Pathology Waste",'PATH',or other suspected by the health care professional of being contaminated with infectious agents label approved by the department on the lid and on the sides,so as to be visible known to be contagious to humans or having been fixed in formaldehyde or another from any lateral direction. fixative.