See Waste Management –
Environmental Management
Procedure (FMENV016) for
guidance.
FM ENV REC 028c
Clinical Waste Transfer Notice
Notes: (1) This form must accompany all waste being transferred to the waste store (Stewart Building) otherwise it will not be accepted.
(2) Definition of Clinical Waste in notes over leaf.
(3) Only print page 1.
Section A: Producer Details
Name of
Contact/Deliverer:
Ext No:
Producing School/ Service:
Producing Building &
Room Number:
Date of Delivery to
Hazardous Waste
Store:
Has this waste been
produced as a result of
consultancy work?
HS12c
Ref No.
Substance/ Material
(please print)
Delivery Accepted By
(SHE Section):
Page 1 of 2
Section B: Waste Details
Quantity
(Kg or Litres)
Section C: Delivery/ Collection Details
Signature:
Hazard
(H9 Infectious or
Offensive)
Type of Waste
Package / Item
Source Room
Date:
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See Waste Management –
Environmental Management
Procedure (FMENV016) for
guidance.
FM ENV REC 028c
Clinical Waste Transfer Notice
CLINICAL WASTE
1.1 Clinical Waste
Is the waste harmful, irritant, toxic,
corrosive, oxidising, carcinogenic,
mutagenic, teratogenic, ecotoxic or
senstitzing
Does the waste meet the Clinical
Waste definition given in 1.1
NO
YES
YES
Does risk assessment, analysis
or knowledge indicate that the
waste is likely to contain a
Microbial toxin?
NO
Refer to the
Hazardous Waste
Disposal Procedure
Does the toxin(s) concentration
render the waste Harmful or
Toxic?
Is the waste a culture or enrichment of
a micro-organism reliably believed to
cause disease in man or other living
animal?
Could "the waste cause infection to any
person, (or other living organism),
‘coming into contact with it ?"
YES
And “any other waste arising from medical,
nursing, dental, veterinary, pharmaceutical
or similar practice, investigation, treatment,
care, teaching or research, or the collection
of blood for transfusion., being waste which
may cause infection to any person coming
in contact with it”.
Producers of waste that has been treated
(e.g. via autoclaving) and who do not want
to deal with it as clinical waste under
environmental legislation, need to be able
to show to the Environment Agency that it
is:
 is safe and non-infectious; and
 cannot be distinguished from other
similar non-clinical wastes.
NO
Not Hazardous by
H9 the waste may
be Offensive Waste
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2 of 2 5.4.3
Refer to the NonHazardous Waste
Disposal Procedure
YES
Does risk assessment, analysis or
knowledge indicate that the waste is
likely to contain a Human / animal
pathogen above naturally encountered
levels ?
NO
NO
The legal definition of clinical waste is:
“any waste which consists wholly or partly
of infectious human or animal tissue, blood
or other bodily fluids, excretions, drugs or
other pharmaceutical products, swabs or
dressings, or syringes, needles or other
sharp instruments, being waste which
unless rendered safe may prove hazardous
to any person coming into contact with it”.
YES
Waste is Hazardous
by H9 Infectious and
either H5 Harmful or
H6 Toxic
In these circumstances, the waste may be
classed as non-clinical waste or offensive
waste. The most effective kind of evidence
is documentary proof that the waste has
been suitably and successfully treated to
ensure the removal of any hazard to
anyone who may come into contact with it.
Waste is
Hazardous by
H9 Infectious
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