Full text of medical waste management regulations
IntroductionThe State Council enacted the "Regulations on the Management of Medical Waste" in order to strengthen the safe management of medical waste, to prevent the spread of disease, to protect the environment, to safeguard human health, and to prohibit the transfer of medical waste, trade in medical waste, medical waste by mail, and to prohibit the transportation of medical waste by rail and air.
"Medical Waste Management Regulations" in the medical waste refers to health care institutions in the medical, preventive, health care and other related activities in the production of direct or indirect infectious, toxic and other hazardous wastes, medical waste *** divided into infectious wastes, pathological wastes, injurious wastes, pharmaceutical wastes, chemical wastes of the five major categories.
Full text of the State Council Regulations on the Management of Medical Waste
Issue No.: State Council Decree No. 380
Enforcement Time: 20030616
Table of Contents
Chapter I General Provisions
Chapter II General Provisions on the Management of Medical Waste
Chapter III Management of Medical Waste by Healthcare Institutions
Chapter IV Centralized Disposal of Medical Waste
Chapter V Supervision and Management
Chapter VI Legal Liability
Chapter VII Supplementary Provisions
Interpretation of the Regulations
Relevant Questions and Answers
Chapter I General Provisions
Article I. In order to strengthen the safety management of medical waste, prevent the spread of disease, protect the environment, safeguard human health, according to the "Chinese People's Republic of China *** and the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Law" and "Chinese People's Republic of China *** and the Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Wastes Law", the enactment of these regulations.
Article 2 The medical waste referred to in these regulations, refers to medical and health institutions in the medical, preventive, health care and other related activities with direct or indirect infectious, toxic and other hazardous waste.
Medical waste classification catalog, by the State Council administrative department of health and the administrative department of environmental protection **** with the development and publication.
Article 3 These Regulations shall apply to the collection, transportation, storage, disposal and supervision and management of medical waste and other activities.
Medical and health institutions to treat patients with infectious diseases or suspected infectious diseases patients generated by the domestic waste, in accordance with the management and disposal of medical waste.
Medical and health institutions abandoned narcotic, psychiatric, radioactive, toxic and other drugs and their related waste management, in accordance with relevant laws, administrative regulations and relevant state regulations and standards.
Article IV of the State to promote the centralized harmless disposal of medical waste, encourage research and development of safe disposal of medical waste technology.
Local people's governments at or above the county level is responsible for organizing the construction of centralized medical waste disposal facilities.
The state on the construction of remote and poor areas of medical waste centralized disposal facilities to give appropriate support.
Article V of the people's governments at or above the county level, the competent administrative department of health, medical waste collection, transportation, storage, disposal activities in the implementation of unified supervision and management of disease prevention and control; the competent administrative department of environmental protection, medical waste collection, transportation, storage, disposal activities in the prevention and control of environmental pollution in the implementation of unified supervision and management.
People's governments at or above the county level, other relevant departments in their respective areas of responsibility for the supervision and management of medical waste disposal.
Article 6 Any unit or individual has the right to health care institutions, medical waste disposal units and supervision and management departments and their staff to report violations, complaints, whistleblowing and accusations.
Chapter II General Provisions of Medical Waste Management
Article VII of the medical and health institutions and medical waste disposal units, should establish and improve the responsibility system for the management of medical waste, and its legal representative is the first person responsible for the effective fulfillment of their duties, to prevent the spread of infectious diseases caused by medical waste and environmental pollution accidents.
Article VIII of medical and health institutions and centralized medical waste disposal unit, shall develop rules and regulations related to the safe disposal of medical waste and emergency response in the event of an accident; set up monitoring department or full-time (part-time) staff, responsible for checking, supervising and implementing the management of the unit's medical waste, to prevent violations of these regulations.
Article IX medical and health institutions and centralized disposal of medical waste units, should be engaged in the unit of medical waste collection, transportation, storage, disposal and other work of personnel and management personnel, relevant laws and professional skills, safety and security, as well as emergency treatment and other knowledge training.
Article 10 medical and health institutions and medical waste disposal units, shall take effective occupational health protection measures, engaged in the collection of medical waste, transportation, storage, disposal and other work of personnel and management personnel, equipped with the necessary protective equipment, regular health checks; when necessary, immunization of the personnel, to prevent damage to their health.
Article 11 of the medical and health institutions and medical waste disposal units, should be in accordance with the "Chinese People's *** and the State Solid Waste Pollution Prevention and Control Law", the implementation of hazardous waste transfer joint management system.
Article XII of the medical and health institutions and medical waste disposal units, should be registered for medical waste, the registration content should include the source of medical waste, type, weight or quantity, handover time, disposal methods, the final destination and the signature of the person in charge of such items. Registration information is kept for at least three years.
Article XIII of medical and health institutions and medical waste disposal units, should take effective measures to prevent the loss of medical waste, leakage, proliferation.
In the event of medical waste loss, leakage, proliferation, health care institutions and centralized disposal of medical waste should be taken to reduce the hazards of emergency measures to provide medical care and on-site rescue of patients; at the same time, to the local county people's government administrative department of health, the administrative department of environmental protection report, and may be jeopardized by the unit and the residents of the notification.
Article 14 prohibits any unit or individual transfer, trading of medical waste.
It is prohibited to discard medical wastes during transportation; it is prohibited to dump or pile up medical wastes in non-storage locations or mix medical wastes with other wastes and domestic garbage.
Article 15 prohibits the mailing of medical waste.
It is prohibited to transport medical waste by rail or air.
With land access, prohibit the transportation of medical waste by water; no land access must be transported by water medical waste, should be approved by the municipal people's government above the municipal level of environmental protection administrative department, and to take strict environmental protection measures, before being transported by water.
Prohibit medical waste and passengers in the same means of transportation. Prohibit the transportation of medical waste on the water bodies of drinking water source protection zones.
Chapter III of the medical and health institutions on the management of medical waste
Article 16 of the medical and health institutions should be collected in a timely manner of medical waste generated by the unit, and according to the type of separation placed in the leakage-proof, anti-sharpness penetration of the special packages or airtight containers.
Medical waste special packaging, containers, there should be obvious warning signs and warning instructions.
Medical waste special packaging, containers, standards and warning signs of the provisions of the State Council administrative department of health and the administrative department of environmental protection **** with the development.
Article XVII of the medical and health institutions shall establish temporary storage facilities for medical waste, equipment, not open storage of medical waste; temporary storage of medical waste shall not exceed 2 days.
Medical waste temporary storage facilities, equipment, should be far away from the medical area, food processing areas and personnel activities, as well as living garbage storage places, and set up obvious warning signs and leakage, rodent, mosquito and fly prevention, cockroach, anti-theft, and prevention of children in contact with other safety measures.
Medical waste temporary storage facilities, equipment should be regularly disinfected and cleaned.