Finding a clinical waste contractor
Clinic health and safety
Finding a clinical waste contractor
Contact your local environmental health officer and department, to ensure that you are meeting your local regulations, policies, and procedures in relation to practicing acupuncture. Generally you must contact your local authority or council, to ensure that you conform with these requirements.
Some local authorities have a one-off fee, while others provide exemption if you’re a member of certain professional associations, such as the BAcC. Annual revalidation costs vary across the country.
The service provided is usually the provision of sharps boxes, and practitioners have them collected with a new one supplied, when required.
Costs and contracts vary greatly so you should phone up at least 3 contractors or companies, to compare their prices and services.
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You will be able to find the numbers on line or in your local telephone directories, usually listed under Local Council Offices. You should call the waste disposal department and ask about clinical waste disposal.
It may be that the local Environmental Health department has its own direct telephone number; this is often the easiest and cheapest way to find this service.
You should check online and in telephone directories under ‘waste collection’, ‘clinical waste’ or other words that describe the service you’re looking for.
Ask if you can enter into an agreement with them for clinical waste disposal. They may be prepared to take your sharps on the odd occasion. Traditionally acupuncturists do not produce a large amount of clinical waste.
Ask them who they use or what they do, you may be able to share their contract.