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The Medical Waste Handling Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Inadequate training
- Exposure to bio-hazardous materials
- 2. Transport
- Spillage
- Manual handling injuries
- Traffic accidents
- 3. Sorting
- Puncture wounds
- Cross-contamination
- Exposure to infectious waste
- 4. Decontaminating containers
- Exposure to hazardous chemicals
- Skin burns or eye injuries from splashes
- 5. Disposal of Medical Waste
- Poor labelling or packaging
- Manual handling injuries
- 6. Cleaning of disposal area
- Hazards from cleaning chemicals
- Slip
- trip or fall hazards
- 7. Storage of waste
- Exposure to odours
- bio-hazards
- 8. Packaging and labelling
- Cross-contamination
- Incorrectly labelled waste
- 9. Training
- Insufficient training leading to improper handling
- 10. Spill Management
- Manual handling injuries
- Exposure to bio-hazard
- 11. Maintenance of machinery
- Electrical hazard
- Mechanical failure causing injury
- 12. Waste Documentation
- Incorrect documentation resulting in mishandling
- 13. Emergency procedures
- Lack of preparation for emergencies
- Poor communication
- 14. Personal Protection Equipment use
- Improper or inadequate use of PPE
- 15. End-of-day clean up
- Exposure to hazardous residues
- Fatigue influencing ability to clean properly
- 16. Review and handling non-compliance
- Inadequate monitoring leading to improper practices
- 17. Reporting and record keeping
- Incorrect recording of waste handled
- miscommunication
- 18. Incident investigation and reporting
- Inadequate incident investigation leading to circular problems
- 19. Debriefing and improvement
- Poor communication
- Insufficient process improvement
- 20. Waste inventory check
- Incorrect inventory management
- Incorrect waste categorisation