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Make Your Health Facility Fully Compliant by Treating Waste Onsite
Recognizing the harmful effects of untreated health care waste to both human health and the surrounding environment, the Philippine government has put into place laws and administrative regulations that mandate appropriate procedures and standards for health care waste generators, transporters, and disposal facilities.
Learn more about these regulations and how the Tesalys line of medical waste autoclaves is enabling compliance among health care facilities.
Republic Act No. 9003
Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000
What the law is about
This landmark legislation seeks to ensure the protection of public health and the environment through the utilization of environmentally sound methods for treating, handling, and disposing of solid wastes, and encourages waste minimization and segregation at the point of generation, including households and institutions such as hospitals.
The law essentially devolved the management of solid waste to local government units (LGUs) and grants them authority to institute local penalties against violators while at the same time holding them accountable for violations of provisions it mandates.
Republic Act No. 6969
Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear Wastes Control Act of 1990
What the law is about
This law requires the registration of waste generators, waste transporters and operators of toxic and hazardous waste treatment facilities with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources Environmental Management Bureau. It also seeks to inform and educate the populace regarding the hazards and risks attendant to the manufacture, handling, storage, transportation, processing, distribution, use and disposal of toxic chemicals and other substances and mixture.
Republic Act No. 8749
The Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999
What the law is about
This law promotes the use of state-of-the-art, environmentally sound, and safe thermal and non-burn technologies for the handling, treatment, thermal destruction, utilization, and disposal of sorted biomedical and hazardous wastes. It prohibits incineration, defined as the burning of municipal, biomedical, and hazardous wastes, which process emits toxic and poisonous fumes.
Joint DENR-DOH Administrative Order No. 02, Series of 2005
Policies and Guidelines on effective and proper handling, collection, transport, treatment, storage and disposal of health care wastes
What this issuance is about
This core document provides guidelines to generators, transporters and operators/ owners of Transport, Storage, and Disposal (TSD) Facilities on proper handling, collection, transport, storage, treatment and disposal of HCW. This regulation specifically requires health care waste TSD facilities to submit to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources Environmental Management Bureau (DENR-EMB) copies of the certification of the microbiological tests performed upon the facility's treated hazardous and infectious waste.
A critical provision under this administrative order is the requirement that all health care waste TSD facility operators and health care waste generators with on-site waste treatment facilities should only use DOH-BHDT-CDRRHR registered equipment or devices used for the treatment of health care wastes.
Comply today
One Top Medical Systems Resources is the exclusive distributor in the Philippines of the French-made Tesalys line of medical waste autoclaves and has equipped various public health facilities in the country with the capacity to comply with their obligations under the government’s health care waste regulations and existing legislations.
For inquiries about our health care waste solutions, please send an e-mail to: itparde@onetopresources.com, wms1@onetopresources.com or wms2@onetopresources.com and we will be happy to assist your facility.