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Clinical waste pre-acceptance audit for dentists to enable clinical waste disposal. This is a mandatory requirement and all UK based dental practices wishing to have their clinical/hazardous waste disposed of must have a Waste Audit report, In accordance with the environmental agencies requirements.So what would you expect to see in a pre-acceptance audit
- Description of business and contact details - Business Name, address, phone, primary contact and description of business;
- Waste Container Usage: A room by room account of waste containers used - including sharps bins, waste medicine bins, other recycling containers, municipal waste bags, tiger bags, wheeled clinical waste carts, confidential paper, other trade waste, lead foil, tooth amalgam, x-ray waste, box and clinical waste containers;
- Sharps Items Used: Sharps e.g. needles, syringes, vials, cartridges, ampoules and/or bottles;
- Medicines Used: Medicines immunosuppressant’s, anti-virals, hormone-based or chloramphenicol-based including details of how you dispose of them and of any related products, e.g. injection sets. Liquid and/or solid waste medicines including aerosol medicines, IV bags, including cancer treatment, cardboard packing, returned medicines, empty medicine-contaminated bottles.
How you dispose of:
- Extracted teeth and/or fragments, bridges, braces, crowns and other prostheses;
- Chemical disinfectants and/or hand gels;
- Diagnostic kits that may contain chemical reagents;
- Empty bottles of fixer/developer / Photochemical x-ray foils and film;
- Resins and/or adhesives;
- Female hygiene products;
- Your standard soft clinical waste (both contaminated and uncontaminated. (contamination here means infected with blood, saliva and/or other bodily fluids )
- Amalgam trap/separator contents, used amalgam capsules and teeth containing amalgam;
- Electrical waste: batteries, fluorescent tubes or UV bulbs