BUMEDINST 6280.1B management of regulated medical waste

Question 1

are personal hygiene products considered RMW?

Answer 1

no

Question 2

are absorbent materials containing small amounts of blood or other fluids considered RMW?

Answer 2

no

Question 3

What are the nine RMW groups?

Answer 3

Group 1: Cultures, stocks and vaccines Group 2: Pathological Waste Group 3: blood and blood products Group 4: Sharps Group 5: Animal Waste (from exposed animals) Group 6: Isolation wastes Group 7: Sharps Group 8: Other Group 9: Chemotherapy trace wastes

Question 4

What is the RMW group 1?

Answer 4

Cultures, stocks, and vaccines

Question 5

What is the RMW group 2?

Answer 5

pathological waste

Question 6

What is the RMW group 3?

Answer 6

Blood and blood products

Question 7

What is the RMW group 4?

Answer 7

sharps

Question 8

What is the RMW group 5?

Answer 8

animal wastes

Question 9

What is the RMW group 6?

Answer 9

isolation wastes

Question 10

What is the RMW group 7?

Answer 10

sharps

Question 11

What is the RMW group 8?

Answer 11

other

Question 12

What is the RMW group 9?

Answer 12

chemotherapy trace wastes

Question 13

what is considered a sufficient thickness for plastic bags used to collect RMW?

Answer 13

3mm

Question 14

Storage of non-pathological RMW shall not exceed how long?

Answer 14

7 days

Question 15

Pathological wastes not immediately processed for treatment and disposal must be refrigerated and must be frozen if stored for greater than how long?

Answer 15

24 hours

Question 16

frozen storage of pathological RMW shall not exceed how long?

Answer 16

30 days

Question 17

what are the two methods of disposal for group 1 liquid wastes?

Answer 17

1. steam sterilized and disposed of in the sanitary sewer system. 2. kept in original glass containers and placed in sharps containers for treatment and disposal via the sharps procedure.

Question 18

What should you do with full vials of vaccines that need to be disposed of?

Answer 18

return them to pharmacy for vendor return

Question 19

How should nasal mist vaccine dispenser be dispossessed?

Answer 19

non-sharps RMW containers

Question 20

Group 2 pathological waste examples include what 5 human wastes?

Answer 20

1. tissues 2. organs 3. body parts 4. extracted human teeth 5. body fluids removed during surgery or autopsy

Question 21

Unless prohibited by local, state, or host nation laws, how will bulk blood be disposed?

Answer 21

via the sanitary sewer

Question 22

remove and seal sharps containers when they are ___ full .

Answer 22

3/4

Question 23

Do carcasses of road kills, euthanized animals, or animals dying of natural causes fall into group 5?

Answer 23

no

Question 24

what are examples of group 5 animal waste?

Answer 24

contaminated animal carcasses, body parts, and bedding of animals known to have been exposed to infections agent during research.

Question 25

what are some examples of group 8 other?

Answer 25

seamen vaginal recreations cerebrospinal fluid pleural fluid

Question 26

Normally, what color or chemotherapeutic trace wastes containers?

Answer 26

yellow

Question 27

Federal regulations require facilities maintain shipping paperwork for how long after the RMW was accepted by the waste carrier?

Answer 27

2 years