Posted By stevehaigh Our business is a Residential Home As the producer of clinical waste such as sharps and soiled incontinence pads when we have this waste collected by a licensed carrier should we receive and/or sign waste transfer notes.

Posted By Bob Thompson CMIOSH I have recently been in discussions with EA on this very issue and have bad news, it is not just sharps etc that are classified as haz waste, you also need to consider soiled inco wear in your waste management procedures as they do not qualify for exemption under domestic fraction. Their advice is that given the general state of health of the population of your home, you will have to accept that a percentage of all human bodily fluids will be infected and therefore treated as infected clinical waste. once this waste is placed into a bag then all waste in that bag must be treated as infected. Once this reaches an amount of 200 kg per year the licensing requirements will apply as will transfer notes with each consignment. Don't ask me to clarify how I know but one pad with number 1 soil age weighs 450 gms I have calculated that 1% of the population of a 40 bed home who use inco pads will generate 500 kg of infectiouse waste per year. ouch. Bob

Posted By ian milne Perhaps. Consider this (and your waste disposal provider can confirm it), where they collect similar wastes every week/month etc, they can raise an annual succession note which saves raising separate DoC etc. You will still need to get some form of paperwork from them to confirm that they have collected waste for disposal (that types of waste usually go for incineration though). You then need to ensure that you have assessed them as suitable for this purpose as well and that the do dispose correctly, (as required under EPA 1990 & 1991, EA 1995, Haz Waste regs etc etc)

Posted By Robert K Lewis Bob The reason for this is the need for a consignment note. These are not the same as the DoC transfer notes in their operation and cannot be done on an annual basis. However if you use the carriers who do the routine runs they have an ability to combine the pick ups onto a single CN providing they have a premise code and waste detail from each pick up point. Bob