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Present a one-day conference on:

WASTE MANAGEMENT

held on

FRIDAY, 7th NOVEMBER 2008

at

THE CONFERENCE CENTRE,
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust,
Wrightington Hospital, Hall Lane, Appley Bridge, Near Wigan.

Is your Trust waste generation an ever increasing pressure and difficult to control? Are you compliant to the latest legislation and HTM guidance? Everyone in a Trust generates waste. To manage that waste as a resource often falls under the remit of an individual. The DoH HTM 07-01 on the Safe Management of Waste, HTM 07-05 on WEEE and HTM 07-06 on the Disposal of pharmaceutical waste require evidence based annual assessments to ensure prevention, segregation, handling, transportation, and disposal of waste is properly managed to minimise risks. The Landfill Regulations 2002 (Section 10) calls on waste producers to minimise waste to landfill and increase recycling.

Are you committed to the NHS Carbon Reduction Scheme and Site Waste Management Plans used within your development projects? What legislative drivers apply in delivering a Sustainable Healthcare Estate? How do we use BREEAM Healthcare in projects and minimise our carbon footprint?

Key issues also to be covered include:

• Our ‘Duty of Care’ and documentation processes in correctly identifying, describing and packaging waste e.g. cytotoxic and sharps waste
• The potential benefits and drawbacks in the use of alternative technology for the disposal of low-level infectious waste
• The Health and Safety risks in widening the number of waste streams across the organisation
• The financial aspects and resource implications of training staff in further waste segregation
• Contingency planning

The Conference speakers, from a variety of backgrounds, will explore the tools to move from waste disposal to a managed resource used within legislative framework.

THIS CONFERENCE WILL BE OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO ESTATES & FACILITIES MANAGERS, OFFICERS, HEALTH & SAFETY/GOVERNANCE/RISK MANAGERS, HOTEL SERVICES MANAGERS AND INFECTION CONTROL LEADS

The cost of attending the conference is £100.00 per person.  This includes attendance at the Conference, course handouts, coffee/tea & bacon roll on arrival, mid morning coffee/tea, 2-course buffet lunch and afternoon tea/coffee.

WE ARE EXPECTING THIS CONFERENCE TO BE FULLY SUBSCRIBED.  IF YOU WISH TO ATTEND, PLEASE COMPLETE AND SEND IN AN APPLICATION FORM AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

Further Information

VENUE:

THE CONFERENCE CENTRE,
LONG DRAWING ROOM,
WRIGHTINGTON, WIGAN AND LEIGH NHS TRUST,
WRIGHTINGTON HOSPITAL, HALL LANE,
APPLEY BRIDGE, NEAR WIGAN, WN6 9EP

Wrightington Hospital is located ½ mile from Junction 27 of the M6 on the A5209 towards Parbold.

A DETAILED LOCATION MAP WILL BE SENT TO DELEGATES ALONG WITH CONFIRMATION OF BOOKING