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Chapter III

STANDARDS OF INSTRUMENTS AND BAGS FOR CONTAINING AND TRANSPORTING SOLID WASTES IN MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENTS

Article 7. Color coding

1. Yellow for contagious wastes.

2. Black for hazardous chemical and radioactive wastes.

3. Green for ordinary wastes and small pressure cylinders.

4. White for recycled wastes.

Article 8. Waste bags

1. Yellow and black bags must be made of PE or PP, not PVC plastic.

2. Medical waste bags must be at least 0.1 mm thick and have sizes suitable to waste volume and the maximum volume of 0.1 m3

3. The bag outside must be printed with a line at the 3/4 height of the bag and the phrase “KHONG DUOC DUNG QUA VACH NAY” (NOT CONTAINED ABOVE THIS LINE).

4. Waste bags must comply with the color system specified in Article 7 of this Regulation and be used for proper purposes.

Article 9. Sharp and pointed waste containers

1. Sharp and pointed waste containers must suit the final destruction methods.

2. Sharp and pointed waste containers must satisfy the following standards:

a/ Their walls and bottoms are hard enough so as not to be punctured.

b/ They can resist infiltration.

c/ They have proper sizes.

d/ They have lids which are easy to open and close.

dd/ Their mouths are big enough for putting sharp and pointed objects without push.

e/ They are printed with the phrase “CHI DUNG CHAT THAI SAC NHON” (FOR SHARP AND POINTED WASTES ONLY) and a line at the 3/4 height and the phrase “KHONG DUOC DUNG QUA VACH NAY” (NOT CONTAINED ABOVE THIS LINE).

g/ They are in yellow.

h/ They have handles or are attached with a fixed system.

i/ The contained sharp and pointed objects do not fall outside upon transportation.

3. For medical establishments using injection needle-destroying machines or injection syringe- and needle-cutters, sharp and pointed waste containers must be made of metal or hard plastic, which can be usable and must constitute a part of the injection needle- and syringe-destroying machines or cutters.

4. For re-usable sharp and pointed waste plastic containers, before their re-use, they must be cleansed and disinfected under the medical instrument-disinfecting process. The disinfected plastic containers for re-use must retain all their original properties.

Article 10. Waste bins

a/ To be made of high-density plastic with thick and hard bottoms or made of metal with pedal lids. Collection bins of 50 liters or larger should be wheeled.

b/ Yellow bins are used for gathering yellow waste bags and boxes.

c/ Black bins are used for gathering black waste bags. For radioactive wastes, bins must be made of metal.

d/ Green bins are used for gathering green waste bags.

dd/ White bins are used for gathering white waste bags.

e/ Bin capacity depends on generated waste volumes, ranging from 10 liters to 250 liters.

g/ The bin’s outside must be printed with a signal line at the 3/4 height and with the phrase “KHONG DUOC DUNG QUA VACH NAY” (NOT CONTAINED ABOVE THIS LINE).

Article 11. Waste type symbols

The outside of bags and bins storing assorted hazardous wastes and to-be-recycled wastes must bear symbols indicating proper waste types (Appendix 3 to this Regulation, not printed herein):

a/ Yellow bags and bins storing contagious wastes display the symbol of biological hazard.

b/ Black bags and bins storing tissue-intoxicating wastes display the symbol of tissue intoxicants and the phrase “CHAT GAY DOC TE BAO” (TISSUE INTOXIOANTS).

c/ Black bags and bins storing radioactive wastes display and the phrase “CHAT THAI PHONG XA” (RADIOACTIVE WASTES).

d/ White bags and bins storing to-be-recycled wastes display the symbol of recyclable wastes.

Article 12. Waste-carrying vehicles

Vehicles carrying wastes must meet the standards of having walls, lids and tight bottoms, being convenient for loading and unloading wastes, for cleaning, cleansing and drying.