Legal regulation of the management of waste.
Healthcare providers such as hospitals and clinics have a duty of care under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and its regulations to ensure that the waste they produce does not cause pollution or present a hazard to health. Nurses are well placed to ensure that the trust they work for discharge that duty. In this article, Richard Griffith outlines the legislation regulating the safe management and disposal of waste and considers how the law applies to nurses.
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