BUMEDINST 6280.1B Flashcards
What is BUMEDINST 6280.1B
Management of Regulated Medical Waste
How many groups of RMW are there?
9
What are shipboard medical personnel governed by regarding RMW?
Afloat medical waste management guide
What is solid material intended for disposal from direct result of patients?
Non-RMW
What is generated during diagnosis, treatment or immunization of humans or animals?
RMW
What provides guidelines that protect medical personnel from occupational exposures?
29 CFR 1910.1030
What group is chemotherapy waste?
9
What group is animal waste?
5
Medical waste from isolation rooms, post partum or gynecological surgical wards are what?
RMW
Generally, what color are chemotherapeutic waste containers?
yellow
What group is cultures, stocks and vaccines?
1
Tissues, organs, extracted human teeth and body fluid specimens are examples of what?
Pathological waste
What group includes pathological waste?
2
Sharps containers should be removed and sealed at what level?
75%
What group includes blood and blood products?
3
Frozen storage of RWM shall not exceed how many days?
30
Federal regulations require to maintain shipping paperwork/manifest for how many years?
2 years
House hold bleach is diluted to what amount?
1:10
Storage of non-pathological RMW shall not exceed how many days?
7
Items generated in health care setting but are non-infectious?
non-RMW
Pathological waste not immediately processed must be frozen if stored for more than how many hours?
24hrs
Employees with occupational exposure to RWM shall receive training at least how oftern?
Annually
What group is sharps?
4 and 7
What group includes isolation wastes?
6
