Published recently, HTM 07-01 replaces the Health Services Advisory Committee’s guidance document Safe disposal of clinical waste that was introduced in 1999.
This guidance also introduces a new national colour coded waste segregation guide; a new methodology for infectious and medicinal waste; and an offensive/ hygiene waste stream. It provides sector guides for community nursing, research and laboratory facilities and ambulance services.
IHEEM is staging a series of seminars that will give a general introduction to the HTM and identify how the guidance will have an effect on everyday working practices. A case study will give advice on how to tackle the guidance and a legal viewpoint will be put forward.
The seminars are designed for estates and facilities managers, and others involved in the management of waste in healthcare premises.
Information on locations and dates of the seminars is available on the IHEEM website www.iheem.org.uk/events More details can be obtained from Louise Corfield, IHEEM events manager (tel: 023 9282 3186; e-mail: louise.corfield@iheem.org.uk
