Guide on the management of health care waste
Tools provide guidance and supportive information for Member States to provide guidance for health care settings to promote and facilitate the use of safer alternatives and sound management of health care waste, drawing on relevant guidance from WHO and others, such as that adopted under multilateral environmental agreements.
Relevant tools
Below is a list of tools relevant for implementing this topic :
- WHO - Safe management of wastes from health-care activities [2014]
- WHO - Developing national strategies for phasing out mercury-containing thermometers and sphygmomanometers in health care [2015]
- UNDP - Guidance on the cleanup, temporary or intermediate storage, and transport of mercury waste from healthcare facilities [2015]
- WHO - A new solar-powered blood pressure measuring device for low-resource settings [2012]
- UNEP - Promoting the phase down of dental amalgam in developing countries [2014]
- Minamata Convention/IADR - Research into dental amalgam alternatives [accessed 2021]
- WHO - Prevention and treatment of dental caries with mercury-free products and minimal intervention [2022]
- UNEP/Basel Convention - Technical Guidelines for the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of elemental mercury and wastes containing or contaminated with mercury [2015]
- UNEP - Toolkit for Identification and Quantification of Mercury Releases [2019]