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Creator: NETEC
Subject: Waste Management
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2025-01-29
Description: This resource is a comprehensive tool designed to assist healthcare facilities in evaluating their waste management protocols for special pathogens, including Category A infectious substances. The tracer provides a structured worksheet to guide… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Waste Management
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2024-03-21
Description: This blog post covers information on Mpox Waste. The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has collaborated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to address an… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Waste Management
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2024-11-06
Description: This guidance document includes information on handling Marburg virus waste, and links to other relevant resources.Marburg virus is a Category A pathogen and Select Agent. Any waste potentially contaminated with Marburg virus, including laboratory… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Waste Management
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2024-08-20
Description: This document provides essential guidance for managing Category A waste in special pathogen isolation scenarios. It outlines key waste management objectives including effective packaging securement of packaged waste and engaging relevant partners to… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Waste Management
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2021-07-21
Description: The United States recently had a case of Mpox virus diagnosed in a patient in Dallas County, Texas. Organizations in the U.S. now preparing for the potential need to handle patients under investigation or patients with the Mpox virus must also… -
Creator: the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
Subject: Waste Management
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2005-05-19
Description: The requirements adopted for the UN Recommendations establish a two-tiered classification system for Division 6.2 materials—Category A and Category B. A Category A infectious substance poses a higher degree of risk than a Category B infectious… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Waste Management
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2019-08-29
Description: When treating a patient with Ebola virus disease, hospitals and health care providers must safely handle, transport, and dispose of waste. Dr. Shawn Gibbs, PhD, MBA, CIH executive associate dean and professor with Indiana University School of Public… -
Creator: United States Department of Transportation (DOT): Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA)
Subject: Waste Management
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2022-10-13
Description: Ebola Contaminated Waste for Transportation Poster -
Creator: U.S. Department of TransportationU.S. Environmental Protection AgencyU.S. Department of LaborCenters for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR)
Subject: Waste Management
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2019-09-26
Description: This document summarizes a full guide., which has been updated on June 10, 2022. The full guide supersedes an interim version, previously published on January 19, 2017 and that on August, 2019. This document does not create new requirements, nor… -
Creator: U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)
Subject: Waste Management
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2014
Description: This guidance is intended for persons who prepare packages containing waste contaminated or suspected of being contaminated with Ebola, for transportation to off-site treatment and disposal. It provides guidance on DOT regulations regarding the…
