Adani Institute of Infrastructure Management

Post Graduate Diploma in Management (Infrastructure Management)

Second Batch (2016-2018)
Trimester – VI

Subject: Health, Safety and Environment

Instructor: Dr. Deepika Saluja

Topic: Summary of Bio-Medical Waste Management Rules: 2016

Submission Date: 12/04/2018

Submitted by:
Aswathi Unni (06)
 1. Bio-Medical Waste Management Rules: 2016

These rules were formulated in order to improve the collection, segregation, processing, treatment
and disposal of bio-medical wastes in an environmentally sound management thereby, reducing the bio-
medical waste generation and its impact on the environment.

These rules provide uniform guidelines to follow and code of practice for management and handling
of biomedical wastes generated from:

 hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, dispensaries, veterinary institutions, animal houses,

 pathological laboratories, blood banks,
 Ayush hospitals, clinical establishments, research or educational institutions,
 health camps, medical or surgical camps, vaccination camps, blood donation camps, first aid
rooms of schools, forensic laboratories and
 research labs

1.1. Duties of the Occupier

 An occupier is responsible to ensure that the bio-medical waste is handled, transported, stored,
treated and disposed of properly without any adverse effect to human health and environment.
 Ensure timely collections of BMW from healthcare facilities
 Inform the prescribed authority immediately regarding the health care facility not handling over
the segregated BMW
 Provide training to all its workers
 Undertake appropriate pre-placement and periodic medical checks and immunize all the
workers
 Providing protective equipments
 Maintain a log book of treatment of equipments including time, date, duration of treatment,
weight of equipment etc.

1.2. Duties of the operator of a common bio-medical waste treatment and disposal
facility
 Ensure timely collection of bio-medical waste from the occupier
 Establish bar coding and GPS for handling of bio- medical waste within one year
 Display details of authorization, treatment, annual report etc on its web-site
 Common bio-medical waste treatment facility shall ensure collection of biomedical waste on
holidays
 Maintain all record for operation of incineration, hydro or autoclaving for a period of five years;
and
 Upgrade existing incinerators to achieve the standards for retention time in secondary chamber
and Dioxin and Furans within two years from the date of this notification

1.3. Segregation of Biomedical Waste: Schedule I

Segregation of waste is to be done as per schedule I given below:
Category Type of Bag/Container Type of Waste Treatment/Disposal
used Option
Yellow Non-chlorinated plastic (a) Human and animal Incineration or plasma
bags anatomical waste Pyrolysis or deep
(b) Solid waste plasma
Separate collection (c) Expired or discarded
system leading to medicines
effluent treatment (d) Chemical waste
system (e) Micro, Bio-t and other clinical
lab waste
(f) Chemical liquid waste
Red Non-Chlorinated plastic Contaminated waste (Recyclable) Auto/micro/hydro and
bags or containers Tubing, bottles, intravenous tubes then sent for recycling.
and sets, catheters, urine bags, Not be sent to
syringes (without needle) and gloves landfilling
White (Translucent) Puncture, Waste sharps including metals Auto or dry heat
leak, tamper proof sterilization followed
containers by shredding or
mutilation or
encapsulation
Blue Cardboard boxes with Glassware Disinfection or
blue colored marking auto/micro/hydro and
then sent for recycling

1.4. Standards for Treatment and Disposal of Bio-Medical Wastes: Schedule II

Standards for incineration:

A. Operating Standards
1) Combustion efficiency (CE) shall be at least 99.00%
2) CE is computed as ((%CO2/(%CO2+%CO))*100)
3) Minimum temperature of primary chamber: 800⁰C; Secondary chamber: 1050⁰C or -
50⁰C
4) Secondary chamber gas residence time shall be at least 2 seconds

B. Emission Standards
C. Stack Height: Minimum of 30 meters above ground attached with necessary monitoring facilities
Reference

 Government of India Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change: Biomedical Waste
Management Rules (2016)