Clinical waste--the law on health and safety.

In summary, the basic legal requirements are found in the COSHH Regulations, which require the identification of hazards, the quantification of risks and appropriate action to remove or control them. Monitoring of performance is essential to ensure controls are working, and to enable you to learn from any mistakes and from what does not work. As far as new methods of treatment of waste are concerned, HSE will apply the same standards to them in judging their effectiveness at removing the hazards, and must be certain that they do not introduce risks of their own for operators or public.