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Integrated Pest Management—Meeting JCAHO Standards with Pollution Prevention

Pollution prevention (P2) activities make great performance improvement initiatives. They can help you achieve JCAHO standards included in the Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Hospitals (CAMH) and meet rules, regulations and Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E) goals. They also promote the health of the public-keeping in line with the basic premise of health care.

Minimizing pesticide applications reduces exposure to toxic chemicals. Use a pest management system that assesses the pest, its location in the facility and its lifecycle as a means to control it.

Chemical applications are considered a last resort.

 

 



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Achieve JCAHO CAMH Standards Meet Rules, Regulations and Goals
EC.1, EC.1.2: The organization plans for a safe environment and implements its plan.
  Reducing pesticide use provides for a safe environment by lowering the risk of spills and the risk to employees, patients and visitors associated with pest management.

EC.2, EC.2.2: The organization plans for employee safety and implements its plan.
  Reducing pesticide use improves employee safety by lowering the risk of spills and risk to employees associated with pest management.

EC.4: The organization improves conditions in the environment.
  Reducing pesticide use improves conditions in the environment by lowering the risk of spills, risk of employee, patient and visitor exposure, and reducing pollution in the community.

GO.2: Performance improvement is financially sound.
  Reducing pesticides reduces costs associated with employee, patient and visitor exposure, and waste management, storage, disposal and liability.

PI.1.2: Performance improvement is consistent with the organization’s mission as it relates to community health.
  Reducing pesticide use improves community health by reducing pollution to the air, water and land.

PI.2: Improved and new processes are well designed and consider patient safety.
  Reducing pesticide use improves patient safety by reducing the risk of patient exposure.

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). Basis for disposal, distribution, regulation, sale and use of pesticides—including algicides, disinfectants, germicides, sterilants, and swimming pool compounds—in the U.S.

P2 Act of 1990, US Code (USC) Title 43 the Public Health and Welfare Chapter 133. Established P2 as a national policy and developed a hierarchy of waste management.

State requirements for pesticide applicators

H2E goal: Reduce volume and toxicity of all types of waste 30 percent by 2005 and 50 percent by 2010.

 

Pollution prevention activities that make great performance improvement initiatives:

mercury | solid waste | infectious waste | chemicals and waste | hazardous waste spills and exposure | ignitable chemicals | pest management | pharmaceutical management | patient safety | environmentally preferable purchasing

JCAHO introduction page

 

 
 
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