Healthcare, Canada Assessment of the management of biomedical waste in a research centre

Summary

EEM was retained by a research centre to identify the measures that should be implemented to ensure legal compliance to relevant biomedical waste management regulations.

Approach and Solution

As regards to biomedical waste management, the mandate involved analyzing the legal requirements, benchmarking the practices in institutions with similar activities and conducting economic and environmental impact evaluations for different scenarios.

Results

The study provided the client with all evaluations on the legal, economic and environmental level necessary to streamline the decision making process towards compliant and sustainable practices.