Decommissioning and Disposal of Health Facilities and Health Technology

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1. Overview - 6 -

PART B - POLICY AND SERVICE CONTEXT - 9 -

1. Introduction - 9 -

2. Regulations, Guidelines, Standards and Definitions - 9 -

= 2.1. Standards - 9 -

2.2. Guidelines - 9 -

2.3. Acts and Regulations - 10 -

2.4. Definitions - 10 -

PART C - PLANNING FOR DECOMMISSIONING AND RETROFITTING - 11 -

1. Background - 11 -

2. Contamination Control and Risk Planning - 11 -

3. Identification and responsible disposal of hazardous and toxic materials - 16 -

3.1. Identification of Hazardous Materials - 16 -

3.2. Hazardous Decommissioning Waste Segregation - 17 -

3.3. On-site Storage of Hazardous Decommissioning Waste - 17 -

3.4. Disposal of Hazardous Waste - 18 -

4. Minimisation of waste - 18 -

4.1. The 4 R’S: - 18 -

4.2. What to Recycle - 18 -

4.3. Materials Separation - 19 -

PART D - SYSTEMS AND UNIT SPECIFIC DECOMMISIONING - 20 -

1. Radiology facilities - 20 -

1.1. Decommissioning of Radiology equipment - 20 -

2. Laboratory facilities - 22 -

3. Intensive Care Units, Operating Rooms, Nursing department and Isolation Facilities - 23 -

4. Filtration Media - 24 -

5. Wet services - 25 -

6. Information technology infrastructure - 25 -

7. General building and administration facilities - 25 -

8. Decommissioning and Disposal of Health Technology Equipment - 27 -

PART E - EXAMPLE WORKSHEETS AND CHECKLISTS AND PROTOCOLS - 30 -

1. Checklist: Infrastructure Decommissioning and Disposal - 30 -

2. Decommissioning Decision Record - 36 -

3. Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS’s) must: - 37 -

4. TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL OF CHEMICAL WASTE - 38 -

5. Treatment and Disposal of Radioactive Waste - 40 -

6. List of Abbreviations - 43 -

7. List of Definitions - 44 -

8. References - 45 -

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