Managing sharps and regulated medical waste (RMW) can be a costly and complicated process for healthcare facilities. Staying OSHA and RCRA compliant is a top priority, in addition to keeping costs down and operational efficiency up. This presentation provides information on how to revamp your program in a way that streamlines your RMW process to boost safety, efficiency and cost savings.

1. How to Improve Operational
Efficiency Across Your Sharps
& RMW Program
An Expert’s Guide for Healthcare Facilities

2. Meet Your Moderator
James Ciccone
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3. During This Webinar
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 All lines will be muted.
 Communicate via the questions tab in your webinar
panel.
 There will be a live Q&A following today’s
presentation.
 Webinar recording and slides will be emailed to you
tomorrow.

4. Joseph Fazio Jr.
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Meet Your Presenter

5. Who Is This For?
Nursing Infection
Control
Environmental
Services
Facility
Management

6. Agenda
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Improving Interdepartmental Communication
Best Practices for Training
Minimizing Disruption When Changing Vendors
Maximize Container Utilization & Cleanliness
Case Study
Summary / Q&A

7. Interdepartmental Communication
• Waste steering committee
• Committee agenda
• Waste audits conducted by either
internal staff or vendors on proper
waste disposal
• Waste tracking spreadsheet
• Yearly audit
• Education guide development
• Education
 Process
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8. Agenda
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Improving Interdepartmental Communication
Best Practices for Training
Minimizing Disruption When Changing Vendors
Maximize Container Utilization & Cleanliness
Case Study
Summary / Q&A

9. • In-service training utilizing waste education guide on proper
disposal of waste
• Online continued education utilizing waste education guide
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Training and Education

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11. Agenda
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Improving Interdepartmental Communication
Best Practices for Training
Minimizing Disruption When Changing Vendors
Maximize Container Utilization & Cleanliness
Case Study
Summary / Q&A

12. Patient and Service Disruption
When Changing Vendors
• Preliminary meetings with key stakeholders
and incoming and outgoing vendors:
 Install and uninstall responsibilities
 Meetings
 Infection control involvement
 Preliminary install
- Sharp cabinet mounting hole patterns compatibility
 Staging supplies, new vendors capability to
deliver supplies built and ready to go
 Change out floor plans
 OR schedule
 Crash carts compatibility
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13. Patient and Service Disruption
When Changing Vendors
• Change out spreadsheet of hardware
and containers to outgoing vendor
• Training on new vendors’ hardware
and containers
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14. Agenda
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Improving Interdepartmental Communication
Best Practices for Training
Minimizing Disruption When Changing Vendors
Maximize Container Utilization & Cleanliness
Case Study
Summary / Q&A

15. Maximizing Container
Utilization and Cleanliness
• Service log for recognizing high-volume
areas and corrective action to the service
matrix
• Review of sharps efficiency graphs
• From waste resourcing audits, the
education team can pinpoint specific
floors and areas on proper waste disposal
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4.83 4.91 5.05
5.32
6.07
6.29
6.49 6.57
6.86
7.01
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JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER
8 Gal Average Weight (P)
8 Gal. Avg. Sharps Graph

17. Maximizing Container
Utilization and Cleanliness
• Training ES staff on routine inspection of sharps cabinets for
cleanliness
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18. Agenda
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Improving Interdepartmental Communication
Best Practices for Training
Minimizing Disruption When Changing Vendors
Maximize Container Utilization & Cleanliness
Case Study
Summary / Q&A

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Main Campus
2016 WASTE POUNDS (lbs.) Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec YTD
Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) 564,890 546,265 562,185 501,755 498,480 508,130 529,740 519,680 497,645 523,810 5,252,580
Paper (Confidential) 54,750 58,200 50,100 53,700 51,900 50,345 55,200 51,300 54,600 61,500 541,595
Corrugated Cardboard (OCC) 22,900 52,050 68,000 63,613 60,800 68,600 53,200 54,000 55,600 53,200 551,963
Compost 12,990 12,990 12,990 12,990 12,990 12,900 12,990 12,990 12,900 12,900 129,630
Single Stream (Bottles & Cans) 19,727 23,145 32,284 24,865 21,533 23,125 18,280 24,530 21,850 20,380 229,719
Regulated Medical Waste (RMW) 24,177 25,928 25,475 24,355 24,269 24,965 20,263 26,632 22,911 27,980 246,955
Pathology 2,277 1,402 1,018 1,497 1,379 1,581 1,315 1,202 1,577 1,129 14,377
Chemotherapy 8,683 10,355 11,720 10,714 10,237 10,575 10,808 11,034 9,030 9,227 102,383
Sharps 17,115 20,724 18,196 20,990 17,541 22,445 19,627 21,245 19,850 18,301 196,034
TOTAL LBS. 727,509 751,059 781,968 714,479 699,129 722,666 721,423 722,613 695,963 728,427 7,265,236
Example of a Waste Audit

20. Agenda
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Improving Interdepartmental Communication
Best Practices for Training
Minimizing Disruption When Changing Vendors
Maximize Container Utilization & Cleanliness
Case Study
Summary / Q&A

21. Summary
• Schedule preliminary meetings for sharps cabinet
hole patterns
• Develop an education guide
• Clean sharps cabinets
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22. THANK YOU!
CONTACT US!
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Joseph Fazio Jr.: jfaziojr@triumvirate.com