HOSPITAL / HEALTH CARE
FACILITY
POLLUTION PREVENTION RESOURCES
Compiled by CGH Environmental
Strategies, Inc.
April 2004
RESOURCES
General Web-Based Resources
Hospitals
for a Healthy Environment (H2E)
http://www.h2e-online.org/
Sustainable
Hospitals Project, UMass – Lowell
http://www.sustainablehospitals.org
Waste
Reduction in Hospital and Medical Facilities
Waste Reduction Resource Center,
USEPA, Region IV
http://wrrc.p2pays.org/industry/hospital.htm
Occupational
Health and Safety Administration
Virtual
tour of hospital risk areas
http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/hospital/index.html
Reference
to identify environmental/pollution hazards in a hospital setting – provided
by the Merit Group http://meritgroup.org/vmctour.htm
Risk
Radians chart outlining environmental risk & regulations
http://meritgroup.org/wheel.htm
Hazmat for Healthcare
Training
and information specific to the health care industry
http://www.hazmatforhealthcare.org/
General Guides to Waste Management & Pollution
Prevention
Shaner,
H.G., C.L. Bisson, G. McRae. An Ounce of
Prevention: Waste Reduction Strategies forHealth Care
Facilities. American Society of Healthcare Environmental
Services, Chicago,
1993.
Shaner,
HG, G. McRae. Guidebook for Hospital Waste Reduction
Planning and Program Implementation. American
Society of Healthcare Environmental Services. Chicago, 1996.
Shapiro, Karen, et.al. Healthy Hospitals: Environmental Improvements Through EnvironmentalAccounting. Tellus Institute,
Submitted to U.S. EPA’s Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances, Boston, MA, July 2000.
Hospitals
for a Healthy Environment (H2E). http://www.h2e-online.org/
Managing Healthcare’s
Waste: Developing a Pollution Prevention Model. (video or CD-rom)
Produced by the University of Vermont under contract
to the USEPA, and distributed by H2E.
Health Care Without Harm.
http://www.noharm.org/library/docs
/SHEA_Proceedings_Waste_Management_White_Paper.pdf
Material Specific / Department
Specific Guides
USEPA Mercury Pollution Prevention – Virtual
Hospital Tour
http://www.epa.gov/seahome/mercury/src/title.htm
Pharmaceutical
Returns Industry
http://www.returnsindustry.com/
Smith, Charlotte
A. Identifying and Managing Hazardous Pharmaceutical Waste.
PharmEcology Associates, LLC. H2E Teleconference, September
12, 2003.
http://www.h2e-online.org/tools/chem-pharm.htm
U.S. Department
of Labor Program Highlights Fact Sheet No. OSHA 91-38 Waste AnestheticGases
http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=FACT_SHEETS&p_id=128
Pollution
Prevention Web Site for Janitors
http://www.westp2net.org/Janitorial/jp4.htm
Environmental
Management Guide for Small Laboratories – USEPA
http://www.epa.state.oh.us/opp/smalllabguide_500.pdf
Prudent Practices in Laboratories:
Handling and Disposal of Chemicals
– by the National Academy of Sciences
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/4911.html
USEPA resource on Universal
Wastes
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/id/univwast.htm
Case Studies in P2 for Hospitals
Case
Studies in Pollution Prevention – from Maine Hospitals
http://www.themha.org/hhe/p2.htm#casestudies
Case
studies and useful information on Pollution Prevention – New Mexico
http://www.cabq.gov/p2/pdfdwnpg.htm
Treatment Technologies For Biohazardous Wastes
EPA’s Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators web page:
http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/129/hmiwi/rihmiwi.html
Emmanuel, Jorge,Ph.D.,
CHMM, REP, PE. Non-Incineration Medical Waste
Treatment Technologies. Health Care Without Harm, August 2001. http://www.noharm.org/nonincineration
