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l� Dignity Heal <br />St. Joseph's Center <br />Each medical waste accumulation site has a representative who is responsible for <br />maintenance of the biohazard accumulation waste storage site, and facilitates the pick-up <br />of medical waste with Stericycle. Personnel responsible for accumulations sites, or other <br />assigned personnel will complete the SJMC Medical Waste Management Training. Upon <br />completion, all of these individuals will help manage and maintain the storage site to <br />ensure regulatory compliance. Online Bloodborne Pathogen training through SJMC is <br />also required for individuals handling human blood or human source materials. <br />Reference <br />The Medical Waste Management Act (MWMA) California Health and Safety Code, <br />Sections 117600 —118360 governs the management of medical waste in all jurisdictions <br />of the state. The most current version of the MWMA can be found on the CDPH - <br />Medical Waste Management Program webpage: <br />https://www.cdph.ca. gov/certlic/medicalwaste/Pages/default.aspx. <br />WASTE IDENTIFICATION <br />Biohazard Waste <br />Biohazard waste is: <br />• Regulated medical waste, clinical waste, liquid waste, or biomedical waste that is a <br />waste or reusable material derived from the medical treatment of a human, or from an <br />animal that is suspected by the attending veterinarian of being infected with a <br />pathogen that is also infectious to humans, which includes diagnosis and <br />immunization; or from biomedical research, which includes the production and <br />testing of biological products. <br />• Regulated medical, clinical, or biomedical waste suspected of containing a highly <br />communicable disease. <br />• Laboratory waste such as human specimen cultures; wastes from the production of <br />bacteria, viruses, spores, discarded live and attenuated vaccines used in human health <br />care; culture dishes, devices used to transfer, inoculate, and mix cultures; and wastes <br />identified by Section 173.134 of Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations as <br />Category B "once wasted" for laboratory wastes. <br />• Waste that, at the point of transport from the generator's site or at the point of <br />disposal contains recognizable fluid human blood, fluid human blood products, <br />containers, or equipment containing human blood that is fluid, or blood from animals <br />suspected by the attending veterinarian of being contaminated with infectious agents <br />known to be contagious to humans. <br />• Waste containing discarded materials contaminated with excretion, exudate, or <br />secretions from humans that are required to be isolated by the infection control staff, <br />the attending physician and surgeon, or the local health officer, to protect others from <br />highly communicable diseases. <br />2 <br />