Description

This study used risk assessment to look at biomedical waste companies using the failure mode and effects analysis. In addition, it looked at factors related to the outsourcing risk assessment of biomedical waste in hospitals and the supervisors of biomedical waste units in hospitals by referring to waste disposal acts. In order to identify significant factors relating to the outsourcing risk of biomedical waste in hospitals, an expert questionnaire survey was conducted on hospital waste disposal unit personnel. The Risk Priority Number (RPN) was calculated in this study, and items with RPN values greater than 80 were selected for improvement. Additionally, the goal of this study was to identify important risk-related selection factors for biomedical waste disposal companies by hospitals. Hospitals can use these findings as references when choosing biomedical waste disposal outsourcing companies. Hospitals have seen an increase in the amount of workable hospital waste as a result of the implementation of the National Health Insurance (NHI) system, which has led to a continuous improvement in the quality of medical care and an increase in the number of patients accepted. Ho (2011) discovered that since the NHI system was implemented, the quantity of medical waste from disposable medical products has increased.

Quantitative Estimation of the Generation of Medical Waste

The infectious medical waste category has grown at the fastest rate of all the hazardous waste types. Hospitals outsource the transportation and disposal of medical waste to registered waste treatment companies in order to handle such a large volume, which results in higher waste management costs for hospitals. Healthcare waste is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as waste generated in hospitals, research facilities, and laboratories. Biomedical waste or hazardous medical waste makes up about 20% of all medical waste in North America. He suggested that the improper handling of medical waste in developing nations may be a significant factor in the transmission of diseases. In order to estimate the potential risk and establish the foundation for waste management strategies, quantitative estimation of the generation of medical waste is required. Institutions that produce medical waste are required to either voluntarily dispose of it or outsource it to private waste disposal companies under the Taiwan Waste Disposal Act. As a result, waste handling costs cannot be avoided. According to Roberts, the implementation of a "global budget system" causes financial issues for both operating hospitals and healthcare systems. As a result, non-essential tasks like dealing with biomedical waste have been outsourced by hospital administrators in an effort to strike a balance between improving patient care and lowering operating costs. This demonstrates that hospitals' waste is disposed of in non-official ways, often at great risk. In order to ensure long-term safety, selecting a reliable biomedical waste disposal company requires a method of objective selection. Under this division of labor, hospitals produce biomedical waste, and professional businesses handle its disposal. As a result, hospitals can save money by not having to deal with biomedical waste. The hospitals benefit from this strategy's efficiency. However, this study is concerned about the cost of waste disposal, and Ho suggested that price is the most important consideration when choosing a waste disposal company for infectious waste.

Demonstrating the Risks Associated with Outsourcing Biomedical Waste at a Medical Institution

The Waste Disposal Act serves as the foundation for hospitals' waste management at the moment. Despite the fact that biomedical waste disposal companies have good management, institutions that produce waste must be responsible for safe and proper waste disposal, according to regulations. As a result, hospitals are still held accountable when waste disposal management is outsourced and the waste is problematic. Considering this, emergency clinics ought to be incredibly cautious about the reevaluating hazard of biomedical waste. According to Morrisey and Browne, most of the models for municipal waste that have been found in the literature are decision support models. For the purposes of this study, these models fall into three categories: those that are based on costbenefit analysis, life cycle assessment, and multi-criteria decision making. Furthermore, Morrisey and Browne assert that although a sustainable waste management model must take into account social, economic, and environmental factors, none to date has done so in practice. The disposal of biomedical waste is based on market prices, and the majority of hospitals are concerned about economic factors. The social and environmental wellbeing suffer from merely focusing on price competition. As a result, hospitals must carefully consider both short-term and long-term risk-price tradeoffs. FMEA examines and demonstrates the risks associated with outsourcing biomedical waste at a medical institution by focusing on workflow processes and systems factor analysis. These elements mirror the risky dealing with factors in regards to rethought biomedical waste, which ought to be worried by emergency clinics while evaluating and choosing the biomedical waste administration organization to decrease their dangers really. Hospitals outsource and handle biomedical waste as one of their administrative responsibilities. Taiwan has forced an extremely severe arrangement of regulations and guidelines concerning the creation, removal and handling of clinical squanders. Nonetheless, clinical foundations might disregard these regulations unwittingly. Even though the penalties for breaking the law aren't much, breaking the law could hurt the medical institutions' reputation. In order to ensure proper disposal and high-quality medical care, this study makes recommendations to hospital administrators regarding the selection of an outsourced biomedical waste disposal company. Because hospitals generate waste, they must also improve waste management and inspection to lessen the risks associated with outsourcing.