The Health Care Waste Summit 2013
15 – 17 May 2013
Emperor’s Palace, Johannesburg South Africa
The HEALTH CARE WASTE SUMMIT 2013 is taking place for the 3rd time under the banner of the Health Care Waste Forum Southern Africa and the Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa to address the current challenges and opportunities with in this industry sector on the AFRICAN CONTINENT. The Summit will attract the best minds in the field of health care waste management, environmental and healthcare specialists. The 2013 Southern African Summit will be hosted in the economic hub of South Africa —Johannesburg — City of Gold.
The main theme of the Summit is: Uniting in a shared environmental responsibility in health care and waste.
In addition to this main theme, there will also be open sessions where participants can present their perspectives on other matters related to the challenges in the industry and the way forward.
Themes that will be addressed in the Summit program include:
- Committing to the implementation of the new national health care waste management regulations for the South African health care waste sector
- Detailing the requirements for legislation to be rolled out
- Investigating the social and environmental effects of illegal dumping and storage of medical waste
- Evaluating strategies for better law enforcement based on the current amount of non-compliance and industry misconduct
- Upgrading the status of health care risk waste treatment capacity available in the South Africa
- Promoting cross-sector responsibility from “Cradle to Grave”
- Strategies for hospitals and governmental departments to source compliant service providers
- Analyzing the effect and outcome of the current tender specifications
- Promoting a reduction in tender irregularities
- Securing good governance and best practice medical waste strategies in your establishment
- Exploring new strategies based on the Limitations and legislative barriers on Cross Provincial Transport of Health Care Risk Waste
- Promoting the ethical management of organizations that deals with health care waste treatment and disposal
- Promoting respect and compliance towards national regulations, specifications, industry standards and acts.
- Securing cohesion in the South African health care waste sector by aligning environmental strategies and goals
- The routes that waste generators can follow in order to select compliant service providers
- Analyzing the risks involved with waste generators not taking up the responsibility of proper waste segregation
- Best practice medical waste strategies in hospitals and clinics
- Enhancing Protocol for the effective management of medical waste streams
- Implementing winning infection control strategies in hospitals and clinics when it comes to Health Care Risk Waste
An electronic copy of abstract submissions should be lodged with the Summit Secretariat by March 15th, 2013. Papers that are accepted into the program will be announced on March 30, 2013. Individual paper and case study presentations will be of 20 to 30 minutes duration.
With the permission of the authors, the accepted abstracts and papers and case studies will be available on the Health Care Waste forum website ahead of the meeting. Abstracts will be published in the Summit Program. All submissions should be accompanied by brief biographical details (80 words) and full mailing and e-mailing addresses of presenters. The Summit language is English.
All submissions should be submitted on http://www.hcwforum.org/abstract.html or email
E-mail: snymana@tiscali.co.za
Event website : www.hcwforum.org