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O099: Making a training CD-ROM on activity waste at risk care
- B Chardon1
https://doi.org/10.1186/2047-2994-2-S1-O99
© Chardon; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2013
Published: 20 June 2013
Keywords
- Waste Management
- Steering Committee
- General Waste
- Human Medicine
- Optimal Health
Introduction
Within the context of a mission of the regional Health/Environment departments, CEDDES produced a second training CD-ROM in november 2010, about hazardous health care waste : infectious, chemical, toxic, radioactive waste.
Objectives
To respond to needs for training the different categories of staff in health care , education establishments, research centres in human medicine and veterinary, and professionals of the environment, in order to set up an optimal health care waste management.
Methods
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Selection of the Steering Committee - period of the mission : 18 months
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Document retrieval
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Writing
Results
Production of a CD-rom of 400 screens divided in 5 chapters: HCW, infectious HCW, chemical, toxic HCW, radioactive HCW, general waste; illustrated with 300 photos; glossary of 250 words; repertoire of 240 acronyms; proposals for evaluation quiz; selection of websites.
Conclusion
The CD-rom can be used in developed countries as well as developing ones.
A suitable HCWM is a complex system with regulatory, organizational, structural, budgetary components; with sanitary, environmental, economic, legal implications.
Key elements: - Hand hygiene, control of health care associated infections, in the context of the new world stakes of patient safety; - Management of sharps and AES control.
The CD-rom is a teaching aid to set up a long-lasting change of behaviour towards a common culture of safety. It got the Prize 2012 of the STHSS.
Disclosure of interest
None declared.
Authors’ Affiliations
Copyright
This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
