Governing regulations

Regulated medical wastes were initially monitored by the federal level by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Today, however, medical wastes are handled and regulated and more closely monitored at the state level, with each state following different legislations and regulations to manage medical waste safely and effectively.

Course Overview

The e-learning course provides learners with the complete overview of the types of medical wastes, different safe methods to dispose such potentially dangerous hospital wastes, prevailing regulations for safe handling and disposing of such medical junk, how to make the workplace compliant to the government regulations, effective disaster management system and ways to minimize the effect when accidents due to medical wastes happen.

Who Must Take this Course?

This course is ideal for all healthcare professionals who are working in Hospitals, Healthcare Facilities, Laboratories, Research centers, Autopsy centers, Nursing homes, or Blood banks and who are dealing with managing medical wastes.

Course Format

Our Handling Medical Waste Safety Training course provides well researched content to students along with informative graphical explanations, audio presentations and self-test questions to clear the exam successfully.

All successful candidates will get a hard copy of completion certificate and also can print a wallet card.

Continuing education credits?

Each student will receive 0.2 CEUs (or 2 CMEs) for completing this course.

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