Medical Waste Management detailed syllabus for Safety & Fire Engineering (SFE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the SFE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Safety & Fire Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit SFE 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-III scheme and its subjects refer to SFE Professional Elective-III syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of medical waste management is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
WASTE MANAGEMENT 9
Waste Around Us, Definition and Identification, Classification of Wastes, Characterization of Wastes and its Importance, Principles of Waste Management, Collection and Segregation, Recycle, Recovery and Reuse, Transportation and Disposal, Waste Disposal versus Waste Management.
Unit II
DEFINITIONS, TYPES AND CATEGORIES OF WASTE 9
Definition of Waste, Municipal Waste, Health Care Waste, Sources of Health Care Waste, Types of Health Care Waste, Infectious and Non-infectious Waste, Hazardous Health Care Waste, Solid Health Care Waste and its Sources, Liquid Health Care Waste and its Sources, Biodegradable and Non-biodegradable Waste, Categories of Health Care Waste.
Unit III
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Unit IV
IMPACT OF HEALTH CARE WASTE ON HUMAN HEALTH 9
Effects of Physical Pollutants, Environmental and Health Risk Associated with Medical Waste, Effects of Chemical Pollutants, Effects of Biological Pollutants, Effects of Radiological Pollutants, Sources of Infectious Agents in Health Care Waste, Infectious Waste Categories, Various Organisms in Health Care Waste, Health Care Waste, Susceptibility, Risk and Impact of Health Care Waste on Health Providers, Risk Susceptibility from Hospital Waste, Categories of the Persons Exposed to Risk of Infections.
Unit V
IMPACT OF HEALTH CARE WASTE ON OUR ENVIRONMENT 9
Chemicals in Health Care Waste,Case Study, Mercury, Lead, Cadmium, Chromium, Disinfectants, Gaseous Pollutants, Impact on Environment, Effect on Atmosphere, Impact on Food and Livestock, Impact on Water and Aquifer and Impact on Marine Ecosystem.
Text Books:
- Tweedy, James T., Healthcare hazard control and safety management-CRC Press Taylor and Francis (2014).
- Anantpreet Singh, SukhjitKaur, Biomedical Waste Disposal, Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd (2012).
Reference Books:
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