Sustainable Health Care Waste Management in Gauteng

Technical Project Documents and Reports:

  Report on completion of additional HCW Tender Roll-out Support (303 kb)

●    Guidelines for Health Care Waste Management Awareness Activities

        Download complete Guideline (3.2 MB)

        Download by guideline section:

              Front page (470 kb)

              Pages 1-5 (564 kb)

              Pages 6-15 (655 kb)

              Pages 16-23 (666 kb)

              Pages 24-31 (889 kb)

              Pages 32-39 (553 kb)

  Emission monitoring requirements and the cost of compliance (270 kb)

  Gauteng Health Care Waste Code of Practice (932 kb)

  Feasibility Study for Sustainable HCW Management Scenarios (1.6 MB)

        Scenario Cost Model (958 kb)

        Assumptions of Scenario Cost Model (71 kb)

●    Technical Specifications for the Gauteng Health Care Waste Management

      Tender for the Gauteng Department of Health 2003

        HCW Technical Specifications (1.2 MB)

        HCW Technical Specifications - Addendum (102 kb)

  Small generator health care risk waste collection systems for Gauteng

      (917 kb).  Version for Consultation at the Workshop - 12 February 2004.

  Draft Health Care Waste Management Strategy and Action Plan (1.2 MB)

      Version for Consultation at the Workshop - 6 & 7 November 2003 

      at the World of Beer, Johannesburg.

  Health Care Waste Storage Area and Waste Infrastructure Audit Form 

      To be completed by all provincial health care facilities and returned to

      Sharmaine Ramathar by email or fax (011) 644-9339.  Contact

      Sharmaine for further information.

  Recommendations for Central and Intermediate Health Care Waste

      Storage Areas (May 2003) (59 kb)

●    Findings of the HCW Composition and Generation Study:

        HCW Composition and Generation Study (Aug '03) (1.2 Mb)

●    Draft Guideline Document (September 2002):

        Table of Contents (122 kb)

        Module 1:  General Introduction (294 kb)

        Module 2:  Health Care Waste Management Systems (363 kb)

        Module 3:  HCW Generation, Segregation, Containerisation (603 kb)

        Module 4:  Internal Transport and Storage (252 kb)

        Module 5:  Transport of HCRW and residues (159 kb)

        Module 6:  Treatment of HCRW (608 kb)

        Module 7:  Disposal of HCRW residues (165 kb)

●    Health Care Waste Non-burn Treatment Facilities

        Draft Guideline for Validation of Non-burn Treatment Facilities (514 kb)

●    Health Care Waste Information System:

        Framework Document (January 2002) (291 kb)

        HCWIS Users Guide (December 2002) (220 kb)

        Proportionate weight calculation (July 2002) (63 kb)

        Upload file (July 2002) (1 kb)

●    Gauteng HCW Management Policy as endorsed by Gauteng Legislature:

        Policy for Environmentally Sustainable HCWM (Oct '01) (859 kb)