With the Department of Health having published its revised HTM 07-01 technical memorandum on healthcare waste management last month, and the Environment Agency set to obtain new powers which IHEEM says “could entirely change” the enforcement landscape for waste management regulation by the year-end, the Institute is staging a further seminar on this key topic for estates and facilities professionals in Bristol next month.
Being held on 16 March at the Bristol offices of solicitors Beachcroft (see report on last December’s highly successful IHEEM waste seminar in London on pages 59-62 of this issue), the “Safe management of healthcare waste” seminar will examine the new, revised, HTM, focusing on the key points for estates and facilities managers to be aware of, and the changes from the original HTM. Chaired by the Department of Health’s sustainable development programme manager, Lorraine Holme, it will also examine current waste legislation, and the new civil sanctions regime, with a look at what healthcare organisations need to do to comply; new civil penalty powers and enforcement notices, and enforcement undertakings. Further sessions will encompass a contractor’s view of waste transport and disposal, and a case study considering how correct waste segregation can lead to “real savings”. Speakers will include Mick Fanning, associate consultant at WSP Environmental; Anne Harrison, of lawyers Beachcroft; Alistair Cameron, from building services and consulting engineers Cameron Corporation, David Storry, head of commercial (North) at healthcare waste services specialist SRCL, and a speaker examining Defra waste strategy. For more details contact Jeff Pickering. T: 023 9282 3186; Email: jeff.pickering@iheem.org.uk or visit www.iheem.org.uk/events
